Improper control of interaction frequency in Kibana - CVE-2024-37279

 

Improper control of interaction frequency in Kibana - CVE-2024-37279

Published: June 6, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU91262
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-37279
CWE-ID: CWE-799
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Elastic Stack
Affected software:
Kibana

Detailed vulnerability description

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

The vulnerability exists due to the application does not limit the number of requests that a view-only user can send to the run_soon API. A remote user can continuously run complex queries and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


How to mitigate CVE-2024-37279

Install updates from vendor's website.

Sources