CVE-2024-23446 Kibana Broken Access Control issue

Medium 6.5 Published Updated

Authorized users can bypass document and field-level security restrictions to read unauthorized data in Kibana Detection Engine.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2024-23446?

CVE-2024-23446 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, published on 7 Feb 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue was discovered by Elastic, whereby the Detection Engine Search API does not respect Document-level security (DLS) or Field-level security (FLS) when querying the .alerts-security.alerts-{space_id} indices. Users who are authorized to call this API may obtain unauthorized access to documents if their roles are configured with DLS or FLS against the aforementioned index.

Weakness: CWE-284

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-23446?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Elastic Kibana.

How do I fix CVE-2024-23446?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-23446 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2024-23446 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-23446 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Elastic Kibana vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-967w-7xjc-4wqj.

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