SB2025012329 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Elastic Kibana



SB2025012329 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Elastic Kibana

Published: January 23, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB2025012329
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 4
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 75% Low 25%
  • Low
  • Medium
  • High
  • Critical

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 4 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Improper access control (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-43707)

The vulnerability allows a remote user to gain unauthorized access to otherwise restricted functionality.

The vulnerability exists due to improper access restrictions. A remote user without access to Fleet can view Elastic Agent policies.


2) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-43710)

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote user to perform SSRF attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input within the /api/fleet/health_check API. A remote user with read access to Fleet can send a specially crafted HTTP request and trick the application to initiate requests to arbitrary systems.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker gain access to sensitive data, located in the local network or send malicious requests to other servers from the vulnerable system.


3) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-43708)

The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the application in Kibana UI. A remote user can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


4) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-52972)

The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the application at the "/api/metrics/snapshot" API endpoint. A remote user with read access to the Observability Metrics or Logs features in Kibana can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.