What is CVE-2024-37279?

CVE-2024-37279 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, classified under Improper Access Control. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2024-06-13.

How severe is CVE-2024-37279?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-37279 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-2024-37279

A flaw was discovered in Kibana, allowing view-only users of alerting to use the run_soon API making the alerting rule run continuously, potentially affecting the system availability if the alerting rule is running complex queries.

EPSS: 0.004 (29.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

Affected products

Elastic Kibana — versions 8.6.3

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)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-37279?: CVE-2024-37279 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, classified under Improper Access Control. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2024-06-13.
How severe is CVE-2024-37279?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-37279 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.