01 Record

CVE-2017-11479

Kibana versions prior to 5.6.1 had a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Timelion that could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information from or perform destructive actions on behalf of

UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: elastic

CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector

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02 Description

Kibana versions prior to 5.6.1 had a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Timelion that could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information from or perform destructive actions on behalf of

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation: Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision: Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability: 1.07% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile: Equal to or higher than the score of 64.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score: 6.1 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD analysis status: Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity: Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published

2017-09-28 19:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 18:12Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2017-07-20

Assigning CNA

elastic

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Base

Data version

5.1

Document digest

ab9342f3bbfbff68dfd13c15aec493cf1f524faf8748a90d30225d5de99d86e0

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms

elastickibanaNot specified—

elasticsearchkibanaNot specified—

redhatopenshiftNot specified—

redhatopenstack-optoolsNot specified—

06 References

discuss.elastic.cohttps://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-alerting-and-kibana-5-6-1-security-update/101884x_refsource_MISC
www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20191023 Membership application for linux-distros - VMwarehttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/24/1mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20191029 Re: Membership application for linux-distros - VMwarehttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/29/3mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST