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)
Published · last modified .
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 (31.6th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 32nd percentile — 31.6% 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 7.17.0, 8.0.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-17-23-and-8-15-1-security-update-esa-2024-36/3769… (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.