How severe is CVE-2019-7609?

CVE-2019-7609 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL). EPSS estimates a 95.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2019-7609: Kibana Arbitrary Code

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Kibana Arbitrary Code Execution is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-01-10

Remediation due

2022-07-10

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-7609

Description

Kibana versions before 5.6.15 and 6.6.1 contain an arbitrary code execution flaw in the Timelion visualizer. An attacker with access to the Timelion application could send a request that will attempt to execute javascript code. This could possibly lead to an attacker executing arbitrary commands with permissions of the Kibana process on the host system.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA9.8 CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableyes

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
Elastic	Kibana	before 5.6.15 and 6.6.1

References

5 Links

Vendor advisories

Other references

Record Details

Published

2019-03-25

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

elastic

Credited to

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