What is CVE-2024-52973?

CVE-2024-52973 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-01-21.

How severe is CVE-2024-52973?

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

Is CVE-2024-52973 known to be exploited?

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

Resource exhaustion in Elastic Kibana

CVE-2024-52973

An allocation of resources without limits or throttling in Kibana can lead to a crash caused by a specially crafted request to /api/log_entries/summary. This can be carried out by users with read access to the Observability-Logs feature in Kibana.

EPSS: 0.004 (29.2th 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 7.17.0, 8.0.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-52973?: CVE-2024-52973 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-01-21.
How severe is CVE-2024-52973?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-52973 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.