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CVE-2024-52974:
Kibana vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
CVE-2024-52974 is a vulnerability discovered in Kibana that affects versions 7.17.0 to 7.17.22 and versions 8.0.0 to 8.15.0. The vulnerability was disclosed on April 8, 2025, and involves an uncontrolled resource consumption issue in the Observability API (Elastic Discussion).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as an Uncontrolled Resource Consumption issue (CWE-400) where a specially crafted request sent to an Observability API could cause the Kibana server to crash. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 score of 6.5 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H (Elastic Discussion).
Impact
When successfully exploited, this vulnerability can cause a denial of service by crashing the Kibana server. The impact is limited to availability with no direct effect on confidentiality or integrity of the system (Elastic Discussion).
Mitigation and workarounds
Users are advised to upgrade to Kibana version 8.15.1 or higher to address this vulnerability. This is the primary mitigation strategy recommended by Elastic (Elastic Discussion).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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