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TI-2019-10092 Aliases CVE-2019-13423GHSA-fxmc-8m6x-7f33

Improper authentication in floragunn Search Guard Kibana Plugin

Priority LOW 39CWE-287Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Security bypass
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-287.

Summary

Search Guard Kibana Plugin versions before 5.6.8-7 and before 6.x.y-12 had an issue that an authenticated Kibana user could impersonate as kibanaserver user when providing wrong credentials when all of the following conditions a-c are true: a) Kibana is configured to use Single-Sign-On as authentication method, one of Kerberos, JWT, Proxy, Client certificate. b) The kibanaserver user is configured to use HTTP Basic as the authentication method. c) Search Guard is configured to use an SSO authentication domain and HTTP Basic at the same time

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.00677 52nd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Search Guard Kibana Plugin (floragunn): 5.6.8-7, 6.x.y-12

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
floragunnSearch Guard Kibana Pluginbefore 5.6.8-7; before 6.x.y-125.6.8-7, 6.x.y-12Patch availableCNA
  • Search Guard Kibana Plugin Vendorfloragunn Affected before 5.6.8-7; before 6.x.y-12 Fixed in 5.6.8-7, 6.x.y-12 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:search-guard:search_guard:*:*:*:*:*:kibana:*:*before 5.6.8-7; 6.1.0-8 to before 6.2.3-12Vulnerablefloragunn
  • cpe:2.3:a:search-guard:search_guard:*:*:*:*:*:kibana:*:* Versions before 5.6.8-7; 6.1.0-8 to before 6.2.3-12 Vulnerable ·floragunn

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA Search Guard Kibana Plugin (floragunn) Fixed in 5.6.8-7, 6.x.y-12

Fixed in the same release

Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.

  • Release ·

    floragunn Search Guard Kibana Plugin 5.6.8-7, 6.x.y-12

    2 records Highest priority Priority LOW 2 LOW

    Other records, highest priority first

    • TI-2019-10091 Open redirect in floragunn Search Guard Kibana PluginPriority LOW 29
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Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Not affected: 4 products
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.10
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.9
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2019-13423
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-fxmc-8m6x-7f33

References

Advisory 2

  • TI-2019-10088 Search Guard versions before 23.1 had an issue that for aggregations clear text values of anonymised fields were leaked. CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2019-10087 Search Guard versions before 24.0 had an issue that values of string arrays in documents are not properly anonymized. CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2019-10085 Improper authorization in floragunn Search Guard CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
  • TI-2019-10084 Search Guard versions before 24.3 had an issue when Cross Cluster Search (CCS) was… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
  • TI-2019-10091 Open redirect in floragunn Search Guard Kibana Plugin CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 6.1
  • TI-2019-10089 Search Guard versions before 21.0 had an timing side channel issue when using the internal user database. CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.9
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Sources

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