Resource exhaustion in Kibana - CVE-2024-52974
Published: April 8, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU107225
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-2024-52974
CWE-ID: CWE-400
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 application does not properly control consumption of internal resources in Observability API. A remote user can send a specially crafted request to the application, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Affected software
Kibana
How to mitigate CVE-2024-52974
Install updates from vendor's website.
Kibana - addressed in versions 7.17.23, 8.15.1