Vulnerability · Published Apr 8, 2025 · Assigned by elastic
CVE-2024-52974
Medium 6.5
In plain English
A medium-severity uncontrolled resource consumption 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 36% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 64.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
An issue has been identified where a specially crafted request sent to an Observability API could cause the kibana server to crash. A successful attack requires a malicious user to have read permissions for Observability assigned to them.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-400 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H