CVE-2019-13423

HIGH

Search Guard Kibana Plugin <5.6.8-7 & <6.x.y-12 Authenticated User Impersonation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Search Guard Kibana Plugin versions before 5.6.8-7 and before 6.x.y-12 had an issue that an authenticated Kibana user could impersonate as kibanaserver user when providing wrong credentials when all of the following conditions a-c are true: a) Kibana is configured to use Single-Sign-On as authentication method, one of Kerberos, JWT, Proxy, Client certificate. b) The kibanaserver user is configured to use HTTP Basic as the authentication method. c) Search Guard is configured to use an SSO authentication domain and HTTP Basic at the same time

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://search-guard.com/cve-advisory/

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0068
EPSS Percentile 47.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-287
Status published
Products (1)
search-guard/search_guard < 5.6.8-7
Published Aug 23, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026