SB2025012329 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Elastic Kibana
Published: January 23, 2025
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 4 vulnerabilities.
1) Improper access control (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-43707)
CWE-ID: CWE-284 - Improper Access Control
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
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)
CWE-ID: CWE-918 - Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
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)
CWE-ID: CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
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)
CWE-ID: CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
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.