6.5

CVE-2024-52974: elastic kibana Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVSS: 6.5v3.1MediumAnalyzed
Published 08-04-2025Last modified 08-04-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-52974 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in elastic kibana. EPSS estimates a 0.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
26/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.41%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 08-04-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 08-04-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 2 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.41%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

34%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.01 pp

From 0.40% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.41%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Elastic1 product
  • kibana≥ 7.17.0, ≤ 7.17.22 | ≥ 8.0.0, ≤ 8.15.0 | ≥ 7.17.0, < 7.17.23 | ≥ 8.0.0, < 8.15.1

1 vendor · 1 product

References

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