CVE-2024-52974 (GCVE-0-2024-52974)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-08 16:46 – Updated: 2025-04-08 19:59
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-08 19:59 UTC
CWE
- CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
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