SB2025012116 - Denial of service in Elastic Kibana
Published: January 21, 2025
Security Bulletin ID
SB2025012116
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Allocation of resources without limits or throttling (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-52973)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when handling requests sent to the "/api/log_entries/summary" endpoint. A remote user with read access to the Observability-Logs feature can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.