What is CVE-2024-43708?

CVE-2024-43708 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-01-23.

How severe is CVE-2024-43708?

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

Resource exhaustion in Elastic Kibana

CVE-2024-43708

An allocation of resources without limits or throttling in Kibana can lead to a crash caused by a specially crafted payload to a number of inputs in Kibana UI. This can be carried out by users with read access to any feature in Kibana.

EPSS: 0.004 (30.1th 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:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Elastic Kibana — versions 8.0.0, 7.0.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

security@elastic.co (Patch, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-43708?: CVE-2024-43708 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-01-23.
How severe is CVE-2024-43708?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.