CVE-2024-23443 Denial of service in Kibana

What is CVE-2024-23443?

CVE-2024-23443 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, published on 19 Jun 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A high-privileged user, allowed to create custom osquery packs 17 could affect the availability of Kibana by uploading a maliciously crafted osquery pack.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-23443?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including kibana and elk. It affects 1 product.

Products include Elastic Kibana.

How do I fix CVE-2024-23443?

Upgrade kibana to 8.14.0 or later.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2024-23443 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-23443 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.

Other vulnerabilities in Elastic Kibana

• CVE-2019-7609 Kibana Arbitrary Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2025-25015 Kibana arbitrary code execution via prototype pollution Critical 9.9
• CVE-2024-37288 Deserialization in Kibana Critical 9.9
• CVE-2023-31415 Code injection in Kibana Critical 9.9
• CVE-2018-17245 Information disclosure in Kibana Critical 9.8

All Elastic Kibana vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as BIT-elk-2024-23443, BIT-kibana-2024-23443, GHSA-ffp9-g6g3-h9m5, MINI-qhpx-w7cf-cx7p.