Vulnerability · Published Jan 23, 2025 · Assigned by elastic

CVE-2024-52972Kibana allocation of resources without limits or throttling leads to crash

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity resource allocation without limits 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 0.4% (higher than 34% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 65.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

An allocation of resources without limits or throttling in Kibana can lead to a crash caused by a specially crafted request to /api/metrics/snapshot. This can be carried out by users with read access to the Observability Metrics or Logs features in Kibana.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Elastic Kibana 8.0.0 – before 8.15.07.0.0 – before 7.17.23

Weakness: CWE-770 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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