What is CVE-2019-7609?

CVE-2019-7609 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 10.0/10. Published 2019-03-25.

How severe is CVE-2019-7609?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 10.0 out of 10.

Is CVE-2019-7609 known to be exploited?

Yes. CVE-2019-7609 is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-01-10), indicating it is being actively exploited. 113 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed.

RCE in Elastic Kibana

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 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.

Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)

Published 2019-03-25 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 10.0 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.953 (99.9th percentile), scored 2026-10-15.

Very high probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — among the top 0.1% most-likely-to-be-exploited CVEs. 100th percentile — 99.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.953 · newest: 0.953 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Elastic Kibana — versions before 5.6.15 and 6.6.1
Red Hat Openshift Container Platform — versions 3.11, 4.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-94 — Code Injection

CISA KEV (Known Exploited Vulnerabilities)

This CVE is on the CISA KEV catalog, added on 2022-01-10. CISA KEV inclusion means CISA has confirmed in-the-wild exploitation; US federal agencies are required to remediate within a published due date.

BOD 22-01 due date: 2022-07-10.

Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-6-6-1-and-5-6-15-security-update/169077 (Vendor Advisory)
www.elastic.co/community/security (Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2860 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:2824 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
packetstormsecurity.com/files/174569/Kibana-Timelion-Prototype-Pollution-Remote… (Exploit, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (US Government Resource)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-7609?: CVE-2019-7609 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 10.0/10. Published 2019-03-25.
How severe is CVE-2019-7609?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 10.0 out of 10.
Is CVE-2019-7609 known to be exploited?: Yes. CVE-2019-7609 is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-01-10), indicating it is being actively exploited. 113 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed.