PT-2025-2948 · Elastic · Kibana

Published 2024-11-18 · Updated 2025-01-27 · CVE-2024-52972

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Kibana (affected versions not specified)

Description An allocation of resources without limits or throttling in Kibana can lead to a crash caused by a specially crafted request to "/api/metrics/snapshot". This can be carried out by users with read access to the Observability Metrics or Logs features in Kibana.

Recommendations As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the "/api/metrics/snapshot" endpoint until a patch is available. Restrict access to the Observability Metrics or Logs features in Kibana to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Allocation of Resources Without Limits

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-770

Related Identifiers

BDU:2025-01324

BIT-ELK-2024-52972

BIT-KIBANA-2024-52972

CVE-2024-52972

Affected Products

Kibana

References · 11

• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-17-23-8-15-0-security-updates-esa-2024-32-esa-2024-33/373548 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/BIT-elk-2024-52972 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-52972 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/BIT-kibana-2024-52972 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2025-01324 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-52972 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/108332 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1882318336546967946 · Twitter Post
• https://vuldb.com/?id.293129 · Note
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1882330731080241327 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvedetector/16165 · Telegram Post