CVE-2024-52972 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Kibana

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling3 documents3 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 57.22%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Elastic Kibana
Timeline
PublishedJan 23

Description

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶CVEListV5elastic/kibana7.0.0 — 7.17.23+1
▶NVDelastic/kibana8.0.0 — 8.15.0+1

Patches

Patch: discuss.elastic.co ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-28hq-v755-x5ph: 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↗2025-01-23
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CVEList
Kibana allocation of resources without limits or throttling leads to crash↗2025-01-23
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CVE-2024-52972 — Elastic Kibana vulnerability | cvebase