CVE-2025-25014

Q: How do I fix CVE-2025-25014?

Upgrade kibana to 8.17.6 or later.

Q: Is CVE-2025-25014 being actively exploited?

Not that we know of. CVE-2025-25014 is not in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Its EPSS score of 21.5% is the estimated probability that it will be exploited in the next 30 days. That is higher than 97% of all scored CVEs.

Q: How severe is CVE-2025-25014?

CVE-2025-25014 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.1, rated critical. CVSS rates the technical impact if the vulnerability is exploited, not how likely that is, so weigh it alongside the exploit-prediction score when you decide what to patch first.

Q: What does CVE-2025-25014 affect?

Published advisories record a fix for kibana (NVD). Only products with a sourced advisory are listed, so treat this as what we can cite rather than a complete inventory.

CRITICALEPSS 97th pctl

9.1

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

A Prototype pollution vulnerability in Kibana leads to arbitrary code execution via crafted HTTP requests to machine learning and reporting endpoints.

CWE-1321

How to fix

Remediation Available

kibanaNVD

Affected:>= 8.3.0, < 8.17.6Fixed in:8.17.6CVE-2025-25014derived from NVD

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Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredHigh

User InteractionNone

ScopeChanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

21.48%probability of exploitation in 30 days

97thpercentile

Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 97% of all known CVEs.

References

Patch1

discuss.elastic.co

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-1321 vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVE	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Exploited	Fix
CVE-2019-0230	Critical	9.8	97%	-	-
CVE-2019-11358	Medium	6.1	87%	-	Fix
CVE-2020-7774	High	7.3	69%	-	Fix
CVE-2022-24760	Critical	10.0	49%	-	Fix
CVE-2022-39396	Critical	9.8	39%	-	Fix
CVE-2022-2564	Critical	9.8	33%	-	Fix

Common questions

How do I fix CVE-2025-25014?

Upgrade kibana to 8.17.6 or later.

Is CVE-2025-25014 being actively exploited?

Not that we know of. CVE-2025-25014 is not in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Its EPSS score of 21.5% is the estimated probability that it will be exploited in the next 30 days. That is higher than 97% of all scored CVEs.

How severe is CVE-2025-25014?

CVE-2025-25014 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.1, rated critical. CVSS rates the technical impact if the vulnerability is exploited, not how likely that is, so weigh it alongside the exploit-prediction score when you decide what to patch first.

What does CVE-2025-25014 affect?

Published advisories record a fix for kibana (NVD). Only products with a sourced advisory are listed, so treat this as what we can cite rather than a complete inventory.

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2025-10-02.