CVE-2024-52974 Denial of service in Kibana
A malicious user with read permissions can crash the Kibana server via a crafted request to the Observability API.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-52974?
CVE-2024-52974 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, published on 8 Apr 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-400
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-52974?
2 open source packages ship an affected version, including kibana and elk. It affects 1 product.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
kibana Bitnami | From 7.17.0 | 7.17.23, 8.15.1 |
elk Bitnami | From 7.17.0 | 7.17.23, 8.15.1 |
Products include Elastic Kibana.
How do I fix CVE-2024-52974?
Upgrade kibana to a fixed version for your release line: 7.17.23 or 8.15.1.
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-2024-52974 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-52974 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Elastic Kibana
Sources
Also known as BIT-elk-2024-52974, BIT-kibana-2024-52974, GHSA-95rc-q9jr-6jhg.