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CVE-2023-46671

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-46671 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Elastic Kibana versions prior to 8.11.1, where sensitive information can be inadvertently logged. Specifically, error messages returned from an unhealthy Elasticsearch cluster during user interaction may expose kibana_system user credentials, API Keys, and end-user credentials. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.5, indicating high confidentiality impact with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 8.0.0, < 8.11.1CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.0HIGH

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

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.3
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.66%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
47.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0066 is in the 58th percentile among its peer group of 21,974 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 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11Fixed in: kibana
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11Fixed in: openshift3/ose-logging-kibana5
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShiftFixed in: openshift-logging/cluster-logging-rhel8-operator
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShiftFixed in: openshift-logging/kibana6-rhel8

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2023-46671Moderate

kibana: Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File (ESA-2023-25)

Nov 14, 2023

References

discuss.elastic.co / t/8-11-1-7-17-15-security-update-esa-2023-25/347149
MitigationVendor Advisory