What is CVE-2024-37281?

CVE-2024-37281 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-07-30.

How severe is CVE-2024-37281?

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

Resource exhaustion in Elastic Kibana

CVE-2024-37281

An issue was discovered in Kibana where a user with Viewer role could cause a Kibana instance to crash by sending a large number of maliciously crafted requests to a specific endpoint.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

Published 2024-07-30 · last modified 2026-06-17.

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:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (33.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 33rd percentile — 33.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Elastic Kibana — versions 7.x, 8.x

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-17-23-8-14-0-security-update-esa-2024-16/364094 (Patch, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-37281?: CVE-2024-37281 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-07-30.
How severe is CVE-2024-37281?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.