Resource Allocation Flaw in Kibana by Elastic
CVE-2024-52973

6.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Elastic
Status
Kibana
Vendor
CVE Published:
21 January 2025

Summary

A resource allocation issue in Kibana allows users with read access to the Observability-Logs feature to crash the application by sending a specially crafted request to the /api/log_entries/summary endpoint. This vulnerability does not impose limits or throttling, which can lead to severe application stability issues and unauthorized control over resource consumption.

Affected Version(s)

Kibana 7.17.0, 8.0.0 < 7.17.23, 8.14.2

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-17-23-and-8-14-2-se...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.5
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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