Kibana Crash via Malicious Viewer API Requests
CVE-2024-37281 Published on July 30, 2024
Kibana Denial of Service issue
An issue was discovered in Kibana where a user with Viewer role could cause a Kibana instance to crash by sending a large number of maliciously crafted requests to a specific endpoint.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2024-37281 can be exploited with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a high impact on availability.
Weakness Type
What is a Resource Exhaustion Vulnerability?
The software does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.
CVE-2024-37281 has been classified to as a Resource Exhaustion vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2024-37281
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Affected Versions
Elastic Kibana:- Version 7.x and below 7.17.23 is affected.
- Version 8.x and below 8.14.0 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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