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WID-SEC-W-2025-0134

Vulnerability from csaf_certbund - Published: 2025-01-20 23:00 - Updated: 2025-01-20 23:00

Summary

Kibana: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Denial of Service

Severity

Mittel

Notes

Das BSI ist als Anbieter für die eigenen, zur Nutzung bereitgestellten Inhalte nach den allgemeinen Gesetzen verantwortlich. Nutzerinnen und Nutzer sind jedoch dafür verantwortlich, die Verwendung und/oder die Umsetzung der mit den Inhalten bereitgestellten Informationen sorgfältig im Einzelfall zu prüfen.

Produktbeschreibung: Kibana ist ein Open Source Datenvisualisierungs-Plugin für Elasticsearch.

Angriff: Ein entfernter, authentisierter Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in Kibana ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen.

Betroffene Betriebssysteme: - Linux - UNIX - Windows

CVE-2024-52973

Es existiert eine Schwachstelle in Kibana. Durch eine speziell gestaltete Anfrage an /api/log_entries/summary kann eine unbegrenzte Zuweisung von Ressourcen verursacht werden. Ein entfernter, authentisierter Angreifer mit Lesezugriff auf die Funktion "Observability-Logs" kann diese Schwachstelle ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service zu verursachen.

Affected products

Known affected 2 products

Product	Identifier	Version	Remediation
Open Source Kibana <8.14.2 Open Source / Kibana		<8.14.2
Open Source Kibana <7.17.23 Open Source / Kibana		<7.17.23

References

3 references

URL	Category
https://wid.cert-bund.de/.well-known/csaf/white/2…	self
https://wid.cert-bund.de/portal/wid/securityadvis…	self
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-17-23-and-8…	external

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CVE-2024-52973 (GCVE-0-2024-52973)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-21 11:04 – Updated: 2025-01-21 16:25

Title

Kibana allocation of resources without limits or throttling leads to crash

Summary

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.

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-01-21 16:25 UTC

CWE

CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Assigner

elastic CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 69/100 over 173 records in the last 180 days details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-17-23-and-8…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Elastic	Kibana	Affected: 7.17.0, 8.0.0 , < 7.17.23, 8.14.2 (semver)

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