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CVE-2021-22136 (GCVE-0-2021-22136)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-05-13 17:35 – Updated: 2024-08-03 18:30
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Summary
In Kibana versions before 7.12.0 and 6.8.15 a flaw in the session timeout was discovered where the xpack.security.session.idleTimeout setting is not being respected. This was caused by background polling activities unintentionally extending authenticated users sessions, preventing a user session from timing out.
Severity
3.5 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-613 - Insufficient Session Expiration
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Elastic Kibana Affected: before 7.12.0 and 6.8.15
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