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CVE-2016-10366 (GCVE-0-2016-10366)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-06-16 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 03:21
VLAI
Summary
Kibana versions after and including 4.3 and before 4.6.2 are vulnerable to a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://www.elastic.co/community/security x_refsource_CONFIRM
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Elastic Kibana Affected: 4.3 to 4.6.2
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Date Public
2016-10-24 00:00
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