Threats / Elastic / CVE-2019-7609
CVE-2019-7609
· EUVD no mirror located
· GCVE no mirror located
Verified 2026-06-22
Elastic Kibana vulnerability
Kibana Timelion visualizer contains an arbitrary code execution vulnerability allowing remote attackers to execute code on affected systems.
Verdict
Today item — known-exploited.
CWE-94 code injection in Kibana's Timelion component enables unauthenticated remote code execution. Active exploitation in the wild with high EPSS score indicates immediate threat to unpatched deployments.
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Is it exploitable?
— the evidence, ranked above the scoreExploit available
Fully weaponized — public exploit code is cataloged for this vulnerability.We link the existence of the exploit; we do not host or redistribute payloads.
Reported exploitation
7 independent public reports of in-the-wild exploitation are cataloged.Distinct reporting sources (vendor, incident response, government); open them for the underlying claims.
Exploited in the wild
Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-01-10).
Probability (EPSS)
EPSS 0.95338 — modeled likelihood of exploitation activity.EPSS is a daily-changing model output — open the source for today's value.
Severity / affected
Affected: Elastic, Kibana. Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.
Weakness (CWE)
Mapped to CWE-94 Code Injection — weakness family: Injection.CWE assignment from the public NVD record; the weakness class drives how the flaw is exploited.
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Who’s exploiting it?
— attribution turns risk into urgencyAttribution not established
No confirmed (advisory-backed) threat-actor attribution is established for this record. Absence of a named actor is not absence of compromise — see Coverage & confidence.
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Why it matters
— the attack path, told twice: adversary, then board1
Front door — unauthenticated access narrative 1
Attacker
I craft a malicious Timelion visualization request containing injected code that bypasses input validation.
Business
Attackers gain arbitrary code execution on Kibana servers, enabling data theft, lateral movement, and infrastructure compromise.
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Keys to the kingdom — privilege/identity takeover narrative 2
Attacker
I execute system commands through the compromised Kibana instance to establish persistence and expand access.
Business
Operational continuity is disrupted; sensitive analytics data and connected systems become accessible to threat actors.
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Lateral reach — past segmentation narrative 3
Attacker
I exfiltrate logs, metrics, and configuration data stored in Elasticsearch through the compromised Kibana interface.
Business
Confidentiality breach exposes business intelligence, security logs, and customer data; regulatory compliance violations occur.
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What to do
— defensible action- Remediate per the vendor advisory — confirm the fixed build for your version and verify exposure.1
Say it to the boardA vulnerability with this evidence profile is a defensible budget line, not a backlog ticket — fund the change against the proof above.
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