Is CVE-2019-7609 actively exploited?

CVE-2019-7609 has no public evidence of in-the-wild exploitation as of 2025-11-07.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2019-7609?

CVE-2019-7609 has a CVSS score of 10 (CRITICAL severity). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.

How do I patch CVE-2019-7609?

Patch guidance is available from elastic security advisories. CVEDatabase generates AI-assisted remediation guidance on demand for CVE-2019-7609.

Fix CVE-2019-7609 - CRITICAL elastic kibana

Q: Which products are affected by CVE-2019-7609?

4 products: elastic kibana, elastic kibana, redhat openshift container platform, redhat openshift container platform.

Description

Kibana versions before 5.6.15 and 6.6.1 contain an arbitrary code execution flaw in the Timelion visualizer. An attacker with access to the Timelion application 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.

CVSS Metrics

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector: network
Complexity: low
Privileges: none
User Action: none
Scope: changed
Confidentiality: high
Integrity: high
Availability: high
Weaknesses: CWE-94 · Code Injection CWE-94 · Code Injection

Metadata

Primary Vendor: ELASTIC
Published: 3/25/2019
Last Modified: 11/7/2025
Source: NIST NVD
Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.

Affected Products

elastic : kibanaelastic : kibanaredhat : openshift_container_platformredhat : openshift_container_platform

Remediation Guidance

Executive Summary

View on NIST NVD