What is CVE-2024-52974?

CVE-2024-52974 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-04-08.

How severe is CVE-2024-52974?

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

Resource exhaustion in Elastic Kibana

CVE-2024-52974

An issue has been identified where a specially crafted request sent to an Observability API could cause the kibana server to crash. A successful attack requires a malicious user to have read permissions for Observability assigned to them.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.003 (26.4th 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-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-52974?: CVE-2024-52974 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-04-08.
How severe is CVE-2024-52974?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.