CVE-2024-52973 Kibana allocation of resources without limits or throttling leads to crash
Authenticated users with Observability-Logs read access can crash Kibana via a crafted request to the log entries summary API.
- 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-2024-52973?
CVE-2024-52973 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, published on 21 Jan 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
An allocation of resources without limits or throttling in Kibana can lead to a crash caused by a specially crafted request to /api/log_entries/summary. This can be carried out by users with read access to the Observability-Logs feature in Kibana.
Weakness: CWE-770
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-52973?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Elastic Kibana.
How do I fix CVE-2024-52973?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-52973 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
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-2024-52973 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-52973 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Elastic Kibana
Sources
Also known as GHSA-87xf-mfww-rh45.