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CVE-2020-7012

HIGH
8.8
CVSS Score
Published: June 3, 2020 at 05:55 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:24 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorKibana

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Severity
HIGH8.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 18%

Description

Kibana versions 6.7.0 to 6.8.8 and 7.0.0 to 7.6.2 contain a prototype pollution flaw in the Upgrade Assistant. An authenticated attacker with privileges to write to the Kibana index could insert data that would cause Kibana to execute arbitrary code. This could possibly lead to an attacker executing code with the permissions of the Kibana process on the host system.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Kibana· Elasticsearch
95%
6.7.0 ≤ v ≤ 6.8.86.7.0 ≤ v ≤ 7.6.27.0.0 ≤ v ≤ 7.6.2

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (1)

x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.elastic.co/community/security/

CVSS

8.8HIGH[email protected]
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-94

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