CVE-2024-52972 MEDIUM

CVE-2024-52972: Kibana allocation of resources without limits or throttling leads to crash

Vendor Elastic
Product Kibana
Weakness CWE-770 · Uncontrolled resource consumption
Published January 23, 2025
Last update January 23, 2025
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CVSS base score

6.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

An allocation of resources without limits or throttling in Kibana can lead to a crash caused by a specially crafted request to /api/metrics/snapshot. This can be carried out by users with read access to the Observability Metrics or Logs features in Kibana.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

January 23, 2025 CVE published
January 23, 2025 Record updated