CVE-2019-7609
Kibana versions before 5.6.15 and 6.6.1 contain an arbitrary code execution flaw in the Timelion visualizer. An attacker with access to…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 95.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.1% of all CVEs
- YesKnown exploitedin CISA's KEV since 10 Jan 2022
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Kibana versions before 5.6.15 and 6.6.1 contain an arbitrary code execution flaw in the Timelion visualizer. An attacker with access to the Timelion application 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.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Kibana Arbitrary Code Execution.
- Added
- 10 Jan 2022
- Fix due (US federal)
- 10 Jul 2022
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
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ENISA's EU Vulnerability Database lists it as exploited, from CISA's KEV, since 10 Jan 2022.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and a Nuclei template for it. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: it is being exploited.
Show the exploits2
Metasploit modules1 module
- Kibana Timelion Prototype Pollution RCE (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/linux/http/kibana_timelion_prototype_pollution_rceRank manualdisclosed 30 Oct 2019
Nuclei templates1 template
- Kibana Timelion - Arbitrary Code Execution (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2019/CVE-2019-7609.yamlSeverity critical
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By elastic
- 46 days later
· 46 days later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Added to CISA KEV
Known exploited in the wild
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Critical10.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 95.3% · top 0.1% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
References
References6
- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-6-6-1-and-5-6-15-security-update/169077 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.elastic.co/community/security (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2860 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- RHBA-2019:2824 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/174569/Kibana-Timelion-Prototype-Pollution-Remote-Code-Execution.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2019-7609 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2019-17147 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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