Cross-site scripting in Elastic Kibana
Priority LOW 29CWE-79Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
Kibana versions after 6.1.0 and before 6.1.3 had a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in labs visualizations that could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information from or perform destructive actions on behalf of other Kibana users.
Why it matters now
EPSS 0.00837 57th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3 | Affected | No fix yet |
Not affected: 3 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo) Operational Tools
- Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty) Operational Tools
- Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka) Operational Tools
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2018-3820
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-p3h2-pqwh-g6hj
References
More Elastic Kibana vulnerabilities
- TI-2019-05363 Code injection in Elastic Kibana KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
- TI-2018-12328 Kibana versions before 6.4.3 and 5.6.13 contain an arbitrary file inclusion flaw in the… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2025-18692 Kibana arbitrary code execution via prototype pollution CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2020-05660 Code injection in Elastic Kibana CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2024-24803 Deserialization of untrusted data in Elastic Kibana CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.9
- TI-2024-24800 Kibana arbitrary code execution via YAML deserialization CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
Sources
- CVE-2018-3820 · CVE Program
- CVE-2018-3820 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-p3h2-pqwh-g6hj · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2018-3820 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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