High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 23, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2019-13423
CVE-2019-13423
Description
Search Guard Kibana Plugin versions before 5.6.8-7 and before 6.x.y-12 had an issue that an authenticated Kibana user could impersonate as kibanaserver user when providing wrong credentials when all of the following conditions a-c are true: a) Kibana is configured to use Single-Sign-On as authentication method, one of Kerberos, JWT, Proxy, Client certificate. b) The kibanaserver user is configured to use HTTP Basic as the authentication method. c) Search Guard is configured to use an SSO authentication domain and HTTP Basic at the same time
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Affected products
2- Range: <5.6.8-7, <6.x.y-12
- Range: unspecified
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
2- docs.search-guard.com/6.x-25/changelog-kibana-6.x-12nvdVendor Advisory
- search-guard.com/cve-advisory/nvdVendor Advisory
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