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CRITICAL
CVE-2018-17246
Kibana Console Plugin Remote Code Execution
Description

Kibana versions before 6.4.3 and 5.6.13 contain an arbitrary file inclusion flaw in the Console plugin. An attacker with access to the Kibana Console API 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.

INFO

Published Date :

Dec. 20, 2018, 10:29 p.m.

Last Modified :

Aug. 14, 2020, 5:30 p.m.

Source :

[email protected]

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

5.9

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2018-17246 has a 19 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2018-17246 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Redhat openshift_container_platform
1 Elastic kibana
: Total Affected Vendor : 2 | Products : 2
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2018-17246.

URL Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106285 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:3743 Third Party Advisory
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-6-4-3-and-5-6-13-security-update/155594 Vendor Advisory
https://www.elastic.co/community/security Vendor Advisory

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

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XiaomingX/awesome-poc-for-red-team

None

Updated: 5 days, 7 hours ago
0 stars 2 fork 2 watcher
Born at : Nov. 17, 2024, 11:53 a.m. This repo has been linked 414 different CVEs too.
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CharonDefalt/ElasticSearch-Pentesting

None

Updated: 1 month ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Oct. 18, 2024, 6:54 a.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.
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4ra1n/poc-runner

Small & Fast Vulnerability Scanner Engine based on XRAY YAML Rule | 基于 XRAY YAML 规则的超轻量快速漏洞扫描引擎 | 可执行文件体积仅 2 MB

poc security vulnerability vulnerability-detection vulnerability-scanner web-security web-vulnerability-scanner

Batchfile Go ANTLR

Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago
50 stars 9 fork 9 watcher
Born at : Aug. 26, 2024, 11:11 a.m. This repo has been linked 23 different CVEs too.
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bakery312/Vulhub-Reproduce

None

Updated: 9 months, 3 weeks ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Jan. 26, 2024, 10:07 a.m. This repo has been linked 161 different CVEs too.
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kh4sh3i/ElasticSearch-Pentesting

ElasticSearch exploit and Pentesting guide for penetration tester

cve-scanning dork elastic-search elasticsearch exploit index kibana kibana-cluster kibana-dashboard nucleo pentesting redteam shodan

Updated: 2 months, 3 weeks ago
22 stars 3 fork 3 watcher
Born at : Nov. 6, 2022, 4:40 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.
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edisonrivera/HackTheBox

None

Updated: 1 year, 11 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Oct. 9, 2022, 5:56 p.m. This repo has been linked 5 different CVEs too.
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brunsu/woodswiki

None

HTML

Updated: 2 years, 4 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Sept. 23, 2022, 1:59 p.m. This repo has been linked 43 different CVEs too.
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Threekiii/Vulhub-Reproduce

一个Vulhub漏洞复现知识库

vulnerability exploit

Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago
448 stars 87 fork 87 watcher
Born at : March 3, 2022, 8:38 a.m. This repo has been linked 171 different CVEs too.
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Threekiii/Awesome-POC

一个漏洞POC知识库 目前数量 1000+

poc

Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago
3417 stars 682 fork 682 watcher
Born at : Feb. 20, 2022, 6:43 a.m. This repo has been linked 405 different CVEs too.
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SexyBeast233/SecBooks

安全类各家文库大乱斗

HTML CSS JavaScript Go Python Shell C

Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago
856 stars 214 fork 214 watcher
Born at : Feb. 15, 2022, 3:14 a.m. This repo has been linked 568 different CVEs too.
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woods-sega/woodswiki

None

HTML

Updated: 2 years, 1 month ago
1 stars 1 fork 1 watcher
Born at : Jan. 6, 2022, 6:42 a.m. This repo has been linked 43 different CVEs too.
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Elsfa7-110/kenzer-templates

None

Python XSLT

Updated: 3 months ago
17 stars 5 fork 5 watcher
Born at : May 22, 2021, 4:29 p.m. This repo has been linked 349 different CVEs too.
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0xT11/CVE-POC

None

Updated: 3 months ago
82 stars 32 fork 32 watcher
Born at : Oct. 2, 2020, 2:49 p.m. This repo has been linked 1111 different CVEs too.
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ARPSyndicate/kenzer-templates

essential templates for kenzer [DEPRECATED]

kenzer vulnerabilities kenzer-templates arpsyndicate

Python Shell Ruby

Updated: 3 months, 1 week ago
106 stars 32 fork 32 watcher
Born at : Sept. 18, 2020, 9:03 p.m. This repo has been linked 1653 different CVEs too.
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Rinkish/HTB_Ippsec_Notes

None

Updated: 4 years, 5 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : June 6, 2020, 12:15 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2018-17246 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2018-17246 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]

    Aug. 14, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:elasticsearch:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 6.0.0 from (excluding) 6.4.3 OR *cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 6.0.0 from (excluding) 6.4.3
  • CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]

    Aug. 14, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:elasticsearch:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 5.0.0 from (excluding) 5.6.13 OR *cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 5.0.0 from (excluding) 5.6.13
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Oct. 09, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CWE Elastic CWE-73
  • CWE Remap by [email protected]

    Oct. 03, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CWE CWE-77 CWE-77 CWE-829
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Mar. 14, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:3743 No Types Assigned https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:3743 Third Party Advisory
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:3.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Mar. 13, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:3743 [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Jan. 08, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
    Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-6-4-3-and-5-6-13-security-update/155594 No Types Assigned https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-6-4-3-and-5-6-13-security-update/155594 Vendor Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://www.elastic.co/community/security No Types Assigned https://www.elastic.co/community/security Vendor Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106285 No Types Assigned http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106285 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
    Added CWE CWE-77
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:elasticsearch:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 5.0.0 up to (excluding) 5.6.13 *cpe:2.3:a:elasticsearch:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 6.0.0 up to (excluding) 6.4.3
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Dec. 25, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106285 [No Types Assigned]
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2018-17246 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2018-17246 weaknesses.

CAPEC-13: Subverting Environment Variable Values Subverting Environment Variable Values CAPEC-64: Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic CAPEC-72: URL Encoding URL Encoding CAPEC-76: Manipulating Web Input to File System Calls Manipulating Web Input to File System Calls CAPEC-78: Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding CAPEC-79: Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding CAPEC-80: Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic CAPEC-267: Leverage Alternate Encoding Leverage Alternate Encoding CAPEC-175: Code Inclusion Code Inclusion CAPEC-201: Serialized Data External Linking Serialized Data External Linking CAPEC-228: DTD Injection DTD Injection CAPEC-251: Local Code Inclusion Local Code Inclusion CAPEC-252: PHP Local File Inclusion PHP Local File Inclusion CAPEC-253: Remote Code Inclusion Remote Code Inclusion CAPEC-263: Force Use of Corrupted Files Force Use of Corrupted Files CAPEC-538: Open-Source Library Manipulation Open-Source Library Manipulation CAPEC-549: Local Execution of Code Local Execution of Code CAPEC-640: Inclusion of Code in Existing Process Inclusion of Code in Existing Process CAPEC-660: Root/Jailbreak Detection Evasion via Hooking Root/Jailbreak Detection Evasion via Hooking CAPEC-695: Repo Jacking Repo Jacking CAPEC-698: Install Malicious Extension Install Malicious Extension
Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

95.74 }} -0.58%

score

0.99478

percentile

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