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Not in CISA KEVReported exploited: VulnCheck KEV since Published EPSS 84.3% probability of exploitation in 30 days
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CVE-2018-17246: Kibana versions before 6.4.3 and 5.6.13 contain an arbitrary file inclusion flaw in the Console plugin.

Is it exploited?

Reported, not confirmed by CISA. VulnCheck KEV lists it as exploited in the wild. CISA has not added it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as of .

VulnCheck KEV lists it since . It cites 595 public reports, the first from . VulnCheck's own honeypots also recorded exploitation attempts.

How likely is exploitation in the next 30 days?
84.3%

Up from 82.3% on .

EPSS score, percentile 99.7 of all scored records. A probability estimated by FIRST, not a report of exploitation.

How severe?
Not scored

The CVE record carries no CVSS score.

What should I do?

CISA has set no required action, because the vulnerability is not in KEV.

Advisories and patches (1)

Which versions are affected?

Affected

  • before 6.4.3 and 5.6.13

Versions by product

Source: CISA KEV 2026.10.29, as of ; VulnCheck KEV, as of ; FIRST EPSS, as of ; CVE List, as of . About the data.

Description

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 code. This could possibly lead to an attacker executing arbitrary commands with permissions of the Kibana process on the host system.

Source: CVE List, as of . About the data.

What to do

Advisories and patches

This summary is based on the CVE record as of . Check the vendor's advisory before you act: affected versions and fixes can change.

Affected products and versions

Versions by product, as listed in the CVE record (1 product)
Elastic Kibana
StatusVersions
Affectedbefore 6.4.3 and 5.6.13

Source: CVE List, as of . About the data.

Weakness

CWE-73
  • CWE-73: External Control of File Name or Path

CWE and CAPEC are maintained by MITRE; the entries are those named in the CVE record.

Timeline

DateEvent
CVE record published
CVE record last updated

References

3

Known exploited Elastic vulnerabilities

  • CVE-2014-3120: Elasticsearch Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (added )
  • CVE-2015-1427: Elasticsearch Groovy Scripting Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (added )
  • CVE-2019-7609: Kibana Arbitrary Code Execution (added )