Elastic Kibana up to 7.17.22/8.14.x Request /api/metrics/snapshot allocation of resources

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Elastic Kibana up to 7.17.22/8.14.x. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file /api/metrics/snapshot of the component Request Handler. The manipulation leads to allocation of resources. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-52972. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Elastic Kibana up to 7.17.22/8.14.x. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code of the file /api/metrics/snapshot of the component Request Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a allocation of resources vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-770. The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

An allocation of resources without limits or throttling in Kibana can lead to a crash caused by a specially crafted request to /api/metrics/snapshot. This can be carried out by users with read access to the Observability Metrics or Logs features in Kibana.

The advisory is shared at discuss.elastic.co. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-52972 since 11/18/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1499 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 7.17.23 or 8.15.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• Elastic

Name

• Kibana

Version

• 7.17.0
• 7.17.1
• 7.17.2
• 7.17.3
• 7.17.4
• 7.17.5
• 7.17.6
• 7.17.7
• 7.17.8
• 7.17.9
• 7.17.10
• 7.17.11
• 7.17.12
• 7.17.13
• 7.17.14
• 7.17.15
• 7.17.16
• 7.17.17
• 7.17.18
• 7.17.19
• 7.17.20
• 7.17.21
• 7.17.22
• 8.0
• 8.1
• 8.2
• 8.3
• 8.4
• 8.5
• 8.6
• 8.7
• 8.8
• 8.9
• 8.10
• 8.11
• 8.12
• 8.13
• 8.14

License

• open-source

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