Code injection in Elastic Kibana
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Code execution
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-94.
Summary
Kibana versions 8.0.0 through 8.7.0 contain an arbitrary code execution flaw. An attacker with write access to Kibana yaml or env configuration could add a specific payload that will attempt to execute JavaScript code. This could lead to the attacker executing arbitrary commands on the host system with permissions of the Kibana process.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-31414
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-2gwg-52c6-q2hx
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-2023-31414 · CVE Program
- CVE-2023-31414 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-2gwg-52c6-q2hx · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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