CVE-2024-12556 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Prototype Pollution in Kibana can lead to code injection via unrestricted file upload combined with path traversal.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00039.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Elastic	Kibana

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana::::::::

No data.

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Vendors	Products
Elastic	Kibana

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-16-4-and-8-17-2-security-update-esa-2025-02/376918

History

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 15:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana::::::::

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		Prototype Pollution in Kibana can lead to code injection via unrestricted file upload combined with path traversal.
Title		Kibana Prototype Pollution can lead to code injection
Weaknesses		CWE-1321
References		https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-16-4-and-8-17-2-security-update-esa-2025-02/376918
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 8.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: elastic

Published: 2025-04-08T20:04:22.103Z

Updated: 2025-04-10T03:55:27.663Z

Reserved: 2024-12-11T22:26:54.970Z

Link: CVE-2024-12556

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-04-09T19:29:07.964Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2025-04-08T20:15:19.420

Modified: 2025-10-02T15:27:30.197

Link: CVE-2024-12556

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-07-13T11:31:02Z

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