# MA-1291.032025: MyCERT Advisory - Critical Vulnerability in Kibana

**Date:** 14 Mar 2025  
**Source:** https://www.mycert.org.my/portal/advisory?id=MA-1291.032025  
**Advisory ID:** MA-1291.032025

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**1.0 Introduction**
Recently, Elastic has released a security update to address a critical vulnerability in Kibana, its widely used data visualization and exploration platform.
**2.0 Impact**
These vulnerabilities This vulnerability could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable systems.
**3.0 Affected Products**
- Kibana 8.15.0 to 8.17.0: Exploitable by users with the ‘Viewer’ role.
- Kibana 8.17.1 and 8.17.2: Exploitable by users with specific privileges (fleet-all, integrations[1]all, actions:execute-advanced-connectors).
**4.0 Recommendations**
CyberSecurity Malaysia encourages users and administrators to review [Elastic security releases](https://discuss.elastic.co/c/announcements/security-announcements/31) for more information and apply the necessary updates.
Kindly refer to the following URLs for more information:
- <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-17-3-security-update-esa-2025-06/375441>
Generally, Cyber999 advises the users to be updated with the latest security announcements by the vendor and follow best practice security policies to determine which updates should be applied.
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E-mail: cyber999[at]cybersecurity.my 
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**5.0 References**
- <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-17-3-security-update-esa-2025-06/375441>