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CVE-2022-38779

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-38779 is an open redirect vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, allowing attackers to redirect users to arbitrary websites via a specially crafted URL. With a CVSS score of 6.1 (Medium), it requires user interaction and has low impact on confidentiality and integrity, but no impact on availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 7.0.0, < 7.17.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 8.0.0, < 8.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.1MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.51%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
40.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0051 is in the 43rd percentile among its peer group of 26,236 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShiftFixed in: openshift-logging/cluster-logging-rhel8-operator
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShiftFixed in: openshift-logging/elasticsearch-rhel8-operator
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1Fixed in: puppet-kibana3
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2Fixed in: puppet-kibana3

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2022-38779Moderate

kibana: Kibana open redirect issue (ESA-2023-03)

Feb 8, 2023

References

discuss.elastic.co / t/kibana-7-17-9-and-8-6-2-security-update/325782
Release NotesVendor Advisory
elastic.co / community/security
Vendor Advisory