CVE-2025-25017

High

Published: 10 October 2025

Published

10 October 2025

Modified

30 October 2025

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score v3.1 8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N

EPSS Score 0.0003 7.6th percentile

Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-25017 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Elastic Kibana. Its CVSS base score is 8.2 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 7.6th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation in Kibana can lead to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

elastic

kibana

7.0.0 — 8.18.8 · 8.19.0 — 8.19.4 · 9.0.0 — 9.0.7

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-79

Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.

addresses: CWE-79

Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.

addresses: CWE-79

Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.