FKIE_CVE-2022-38778

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-02-08 21:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:57
Severity
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A flaw (CVE-2022-38900) was discovered in one of Kibana’s third party dependencies, that could allow an authenticated user to perform a request that crashes the Kibana server process.
References
security@elastic.cohttps://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-7-17-9-8-5-0-and-8-6-1-security-update/324661Vendor Advisory
security@elastic.cohttps://www.elastic.co/community/securityVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-7-17-9-8-5-0-and-8-6-1-security-update/324661Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.elastic.co/community/securityVendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
decode-uri-component_project decode-uri-component *
elastic kibana *
elastic kibana *
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