What is CVE-2021-22136?

CVE-2021-22136 is a low-severity vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, classified under Insufficient Session Expiration. CVSS score: 3.5/10. Published 2021-05-13.

How severe is CVE-2021-22136?

Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Elastic Kibana

CVE-2021-22136

In Kibana versions before 7.12.0 and 6.8.15 a flaw in the session timeout was discovered where the xpack.security.session.idleTimeout setting is not being respected. This was caused by background polling activities unintentionally extending authenticated users sessions, preventing a user session from timing out.

EPSS: 0.003 (20.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 3.5 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Elastic Kibana — versions before 7.12.0 and 6.8.15

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-613 — Insufficient Session Expiration

References

security@elastic.co (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-22136?: CVE-2021-22136 is a low-severity vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, classified under Insufficient Session Expiration. CVSS score: 3.5/10. Published 2021-05-13.
How severe is CVE-2021-22136?: Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.5 out of 10.