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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2025-03-07 20:56

Modified

2026-09-08 08:34

Summary

Kibana arbitrary code execution via prototype pollution

Details

Prototype pollution in Kibana leads to arbitrary code execution via a crafted file upload and specifically crafted HTTP requests. In Kibana versions >= 8.15.0 and < 8.17.1, this is exploitable by users with the Viewer role. In Kibana versions 8.17.1 and 8.17.2 , this is only exploitable by users that have roles that contain all the following privileges: fleet-all, integrations-all, actions:execute-advanced-connectors

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  "modified": "2026-09-08T08:34:36.952Z",
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CVE-2025-25015 (GCVE-0-2025-25015)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-05 09:46 – Updated: 2026-02-26 19:09

Title

Kibana arbitrary code execution via prototype pollution

Summary

Severity

9.9 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-03-06 04:55 UTC

CWE

CWE-1321 - Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes ('Prototype Pollution')

Assigner

elastic mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-17-3-8-16-6…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Elastic	Kibana	Affected: 8.15.0 , < 8.16.6 (semver) Affected: 8.17.0 , < 8.17.3 (semver)

Date Public

2025-03-05 09:44

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