What is CVE-2019-7616?

CVE-2019-7616 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, classified under Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF). CVSS score: 4.9/10. Published 2019-07-30.

How severe is CVE-2019-7616?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.9 out of 10.

Is CVE-2019-7616 known to be exploited?

4 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

SSRF in Elastic Kibana

CVE-2019-7616

Kibana versions before 6.8.2 and 7.2.1 contain a server side request forgery (SSRF) flaw in the graphite integration for Timelion visualizer. An attacker with administrative Kibana access could set the timelion:graphite.url configuration option to an arbitrary URL. This could possibly lead to an attacker accessing external URL resources as the Kibana process on the host system.

Vulnerability class: SSRF (Server-Side Request Forgery)

EPSS: 0.021 (80.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Elastic Kibana — versions before 7.2.1 and 6.8.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-918 — Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

security@elastic.co (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-7616?: CVE-2019-7616 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, classified under Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF). CVSS score: 4.9/10. Published 2019-07-30.
How severe is CVE-2019-7616?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.9 out of 10.
Is CVE-2019-7616 known to be exploited?: 4 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.