Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-1000218

Title: Elastic Kibana Reporting Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-1000218.

CWE Category CWE-352

Published Date Jun 16, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 8.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.82%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-1000218: Kibana Reporting plugin version 2.4.0 is vulnerable to a CSRF vulnerability that could allow an attacker to generate superfluous reports whenever an authenticated Kibana user navigates to a specially-crafted page.

Impacted Vendors

elastic 1

Reference Links

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99253 https://www.elastic.co/community/security http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99253 https://www.elastic.co/community/security

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

8.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns