description: 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.
problem types: CWE-613: Insufficient Session Expiration
affected:
{
product: Kibana
vendor: Elastic
versions:
status: affected, version: before 7.12.0 and 6.8.15
}