CVE-2021-22136
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-05-13 17:35
Modified
2024-08-03 18:30
Severity ?
Summary
In Kibana versions before 7.12.0 and 6.8.15 a flaw in the session timeout was discovered where the xpack.security.session.idleTimeout setting is not being respected. This was caused by background polling activities unintentionally extending authenticated users sessions, preventing a user session from timing out.
References
bressers@elastic.cohttps://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-7-12-0-and-6-8-15-security-update/268125Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
ElasticKibana
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