4.8

CVE-2020-7016: elastic kibana Incorrect Regular Expression

CVSS: 4.8v3.1MediumModified
Published 27-07-2020Last modified 04-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2020-7016 is a medium (CVSS 4.8) Incorrect Regular Expression vulnerability in elastic kibana. EPSS estimates a 1.08% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 64.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
19/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
4.8/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.08%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 27-07-2020
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 04-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Kibana versions before 6.8.11 and 7.8.1 contain a denial of service (DoS) flaw in Timelion. An attacker can construct a URL that when viewed by a Kibana user can lead to the Kibana process consuming large amounts of CPU and becoming unresponsive.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 1 source · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.08%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

65%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.08% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
1.08%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Oracle3 products
Elastic1 product
Elasticsearch1 product
  • kibana< 6.8.11 | ≥ 7.0.0, < 7.8.1

3 vendors · 5 products

References

3 links