Kibana Server Crash via Authenticated Dependency Vulnerability
CVE-2022-38778 Published on February 8, 2023

A flaw (CVE-2022-38900) was discovered in one of Kibanas third party dependencies, that could allow an authenticated user to perform a request that crashes the Kibana server process.

NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2022-38778 is exploitable with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a high impact on availability.

Attack Vector:
NETWORK
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
LOW
User Interaction:
NONE
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
NONE
Integrity Impact:
NONE
Availability Impact:
HIGH

Weakness Type

Improper Input Validation

The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.


Products Associated with CVE-2022-38778

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Affected Versions

Elastic kibana Version Versions 7.0.0 through 7.17.8 and 8.0.0 through 8.6.0 is affected by CVE-2022-38778

Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.38%
Percentile
59.32%

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