What is CVE-2024-23446?

CVE-2024-23446 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, classified under Improper Access Control. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-02-07.

How severe is CVE-2024-23446?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-23446 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Elastic Kibana

CVE-2024-23446

An issue was discovered by Elastic, whereby the Detection Engine Search API does not respect Document-level security (DLS) or Field-level security (FLS) when querying the .alerts-security.alerts-{space_id} indices. Users who are authorized to call this API may obtain unauthorized access to documents if their roles are configured with DLS or FLS against the aforementioned index.

EPSS: 0.005 (40.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Elastic Kibana — versions 8.12.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-284 — Improper Access Control

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

security@elastic.co (Vendor Advisory)
security@elastic.co (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-23446?: CVE-2024-23446 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, classified under Improper Access Control. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-02-07.
How severe is CVE-2024-23446?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-23446 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.