Bug 1533359 (CVE-2017-11479)

Summary: CVE-2017-11479 kibana: XSS vulnerability in Timelion could allow an attacker obtain sensitive information or perform user actions
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Sam Fowler <sfowler>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: apevec, bleanhar, ccoleman, chrisw, dedgar, dmcphers, jgoulding, jjoyce, jkeck, jschluet, kbasil, kseifried, lhh, lpeer, markmc, mburns, mmagr, rbryant, sclewis, slinaber, tdecacqu
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Description Sam Fowler 2018-01-11 07:22:59 UTC 
Kibana versions prior to 5.6.1 had a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Timelion that could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information from or perform destructive actions on behalf of other Kibana users.

References:
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-11479
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-alerting-and-kibana-5-6-1-security-update/101884