Kibana up to 4.6/5.6.12/6.4.2 PDF Report Generator credentials management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in Kibana up to 4.6/5.6.12/6.4.2. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component PDF Report Generator. Such manipulation leads to credentials management. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2018-17245. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Kibana up to 4.6/5.6.12/6.4.2. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component PDF Report Generator. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a credentials management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-255. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Kibana versions 4.0 to 4.6, 5.0 to 5.6.12, and 6.0 to 6.4.2 contain an error in the way authorization credentials are used when generating PDF reports. If a report requests external resources plaintext credentials are included in the HTTP request that could be recovered by an external resource provider.

The bug was discovered 11/06/2018. The weakness was shared 12/20/2018 (Website). The advisory is available at elastic.co. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-17245 since 09/20/2018. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1552 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 119422 (Kibana ESA-2018-17), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CGI abuses and running in the context r. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 13433 (Elastic Kibana Unauthorized Disclosure of Information (ESA-2018-17)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published before and not just after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (119422) and SecurityFocus (BID 106285†). The entries VDB-75175, VDB-102624, VDB-102623 and VDB-102625 are related to this item. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Credentials management
CWE: CWE-255
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Physical: No
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Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 119422
Nessus Name: Kibana ESA-2018-17
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Recommended: Upgrade
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09/20/2018 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: elastic.co
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2018-17245 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2018-17245
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-128234
SecurityFocus: 106285 - Kibana CVE-2018-17246 Local File Include Vulnerability

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Entryinfo

Created: 12/21/2018 12:43
Updated: 04/22/2020 19:03
Changes: 12/21/2018 12:43 (66), 04/22/2020 19:03 (6)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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