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Missing Authentication for Critical Function

CVE-2016-10364

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

With X-Pack installed, Kibana versions 5.0.0 and 5.0.1 were not properly authenticating requests to advanced settings and the short URL service, any authenticated user could make requests to those services regardless of their own permissions.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-306 - Missing Authentication for Critical Function

The software does not perform any authentication for functionality that requires a provable user identity or consumes a significant amount of resources.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published