Vulnerability · Published Apr 8, 2025 · Assigned by elastic

CVE-2024-12556Kibana Prototype Pollution can lead to code injection

High 8.7

In plain English

A high-severity prototype pollution in Kibana from Elastic. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 47% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)8.7High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 52.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Prototype Pollution in Kibana can lead to code injection via unrestricted file upload combined with path traversal.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Elastic Kibana 8.16.1 – before 8.17.1

Weakness: CWE-1321 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

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