Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-23709  

A flaw was discovered in Kibana in which users with Read access to the Uptime feature could modify alerting rules. A user with this privilege would be able to create new alerting rules or overwrite existing ones. However, any new or modified rules would not be enabled, and a user with this privilege could not modify alerting connectors. This effectively means that Read users could disable existing alerting rules.

Description

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

A flaw was discovered in Kibana in which users with Read access to the Uptime feature could modify alerting rules. A user with this privilege would be able to create new alerting rules or overwrite existing ones. However, any new or modified rules would not be enabled, and a user with this privilege could not modify alerting connectors. This effectively means that Read users could disable existing alerting rules.

Additional Information

  • Bugzilla 2066386: CVE-2022-23709 kibana: missing authorization issue (ESA-2022-03)
  • CWE-862: Missing Authorization
  • FAQ: Frequently asked questions about CVE-2022-23709