#VU103107 Allocation of resources without limits or throttling in Kibana - CVE-2024-52973
Published: January 21, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU103107
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-52973
CWE-ID: CWE-770
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Kibana
Kibana
Software vendor:
Elastic Stack
Elastic Stack
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when handling requests sent to the "/api/log_entries/summary" endpoint. A remote user with read access to the Observability-Logs feature can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install updates from vendor's website.