Resource management error in Kibana - CVE-2024-52972
Published: January 23, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU103257
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 7.1 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-52972
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
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.
Affected software
Kibana
How to mitigate CVE-2024-52972
Install updates from vendor's website.
Kibana - addressed in versions 7.17.23, 8.15.0