Critical
Security advisory
Kibana versions before 6.6.1 contain an arbitrary code execution flaw in the security audit logger. If a Kibana instance has the setting xpack.security.audit.enabled set to true, an attacker could send a request that will attempt to execute javascript code. This could possibly lead to an attacker executing arbitrary commands with permissions of the Kibana process on the host system.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-7610
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:28 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Kibana versions before 6.6.1 contain an arbitrary code execution flaw in the security audit logger. If a Kibana instance has the setting xpack.security.audit.enabled set to true, an attacker could send a request that will attempt to execute javascript code. This could possibly lead to an attacker executing arbitrary commands with permissions of the Kibana process on the host system.
osv:CVE-2019-7610
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:53.774114191Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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