8.8

CVE-2020-7012: elastic kibana Code Injection

CVSS: 8.8v3.1HighModified
Published 03-06-2020Last modified 04-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2020-7012 is a high (CVSS 8.8) Code Injection vulnerability in elastic kibana. EPSS estimates a 18.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97.2% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Overall risk
49/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.8/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
18.21%
0%100%
Medium · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1metasploit

Timeline

  1. 03-06-2020
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 04-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 1 source · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

18.21%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

97%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 18.21% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
18.21%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • MetasploitMetasploitremoteUnverified

    Kibana Upgrade Assistant Telemetry Collector Prototype Pollution

    exploit/linux/http/kibana_upgrade_assistant_telemetry_rce

    Maturity: poc

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Elastic1 product
  • kibanaEOL6.7.0 to 6.8.8 and 7.0.0 to 7.6.2 | ≥ 6.7.0, ≤ 6.8.8 | ≥ 7.0.0, ≤ 7.6.2

1 vendor · 1 product

References

1 links