Kibana Reporting vulnerabilities
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
Kibana contains an embedded version of the Chromium browser that the Reporting feature uses to generate the downloadable reports. If a user with permissions to generate reports is able to render arbitrary HTML with this browser, they may be able to leverage known Chromium vulnerabilities to conduct further attacks. Kibana contains a number of protections to prevent this browser from rendering arbitrary content.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Kibana (Elastic) Fixed in 7.13.0
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 3 products
- Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2021-22142
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-69j9-xj6j-fmpq
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-2021-22142 · CVE Program
- CVE-2021-22142 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-69j9-xj6j-fmpq · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2021-22142 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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