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CVE-2025-25016: 
Kibana vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A vulnerability (CVE-2025-25016) was discovered in Kibana that allows authenticated attackers to compromise software integrity through unrestricted file upload functionality. The vulnerability was initially disclosed on January 31, 2025, affecting Kibana's file upload mechanism (Wiz Report, NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-434 (Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type) and has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.3 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N. The security flaw stems from insufficient server-side validation of uploaded files in Kibana (NVD, Wiz Report).

Impact

The vulnerability enables authenticated attackers to potentially compromise software integrity by uploading malicious files. According to the CVSS scoring, while the vulnerability requires authentication (PR:L), it can be exploited with low attack complexity (AC:L) and does not require user interaction (UI:N) (Wiz Report).

Mitigation and workarounds

Elastic has released security updates addressing this vulnerability in Kibana versions 7.17.19 and 8.13.0 (Elastic Discussion).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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