What is CVE-2018-20698?

CVE-2018-20698 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Search-Guard Search Guard, classified under URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (Open Redirect). CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2019-04-09.

How severe is CVE-2018-20698?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

Open Redirect in Search-Guard Search Guard

CVE-2018-20698

The floragunn Search Guard plugin before 6.x-16 for Kibana allows URL injection for login redirects on the login page when basePath is set.

Vulnerability class: Open Redirect

EPSS: 0.008 (52.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Search-guard Search_guard
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-601 — URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (Open Redirect)

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-20698?: CVE-2018-20698 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Search-Guard Search Guard, classified under URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (Open Redirect). CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2019-04-09.
How severe is CVE-2018-20698?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.