CVE-2024-52974 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00051.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

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-7-17-23-and-8-15-1-security-update-esa-2024-36/376923

History

Tue, 30 Sep 2025 21:45:00 +0000

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

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

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

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 17:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		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.
Weaknesses		CWE-400
References		https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-17-23-and-8-15-1-security-update-esa-2024-36/376923
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: elastic

Published: 2025-04-08T16:46:44.448Z

Updated: 2025-04-08T19:59:21.939Z

Reserved: 2024-11-18T14:48:22.149Z

Link: CVE-2024-52974

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-04-08T19:59:16.532Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2025-04-08T17:15:34.653

Modified: 2025-09-30T21:36:21.957

Link: CVE-2024-52974

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-07-13T11:32:19Z

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