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CVE-2024-52972: Kibana allocation of resources without limits or throttling leads to crash
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2025-01-23 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-770
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.
Affected products
- Kibana: before 7.17.23; from 8.0.0 before 8.15.0 — fixed in 7.17.23, 8.15.0
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Kibana 7.17.23, 8.15.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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