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CVE-2021-22136

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-22136 is a low-severity flaw in Kibana versions prior to 7.12.0 and 6.8.15, where background polling activities prevent authenticated user sessions from timing out as configured by the xpack.security.session.idleTimeout setting. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 3.5 (LOW), indicating a physical attack vector with low complexity, potentially leading to limited confidentiality and integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 6.8.15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 7.0.0, < 7.12.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

3.5LOW

CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
PHYSICAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
0.9
Impact Score
2.5
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.28%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
20.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0028 is in the 58th percentile among its peer group of 228 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.0 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2021-22136Low

kibana: xpack.security.session.idleTimeout setting timeout not being respected

Mar 23, 2021

References

discuss.elastic.co / t/elastic-stack-7-12-0-and-6-8-15-security-update/268125
Vendor Advisory