Elastic Kibana up to 8.17.0 File Upload prototype pollution

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Elastic Kibana up to 8.17.0. This impacts an unknown function of the component File Upload. Such manipulation leads to prototype pollution. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-12556. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Elastic Kibana up to 8.17.0. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component File Upload. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a prototype pollution vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-1321. The product receives input from an upstream component that specifies attributes that are to be initialized or updated in an object, but it does not properly control modifications of attributes of the object prototype. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Prototype Pollution in Kibana can lead to code injection via unrestricted file upload combined with path traversal.

The advisory is available at discuss.elastic.co. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-12556 since 12/11/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1059 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 8.17.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

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CPE 2.2info

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 8.2

VulDB Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Temp Score: 6.0
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NVD Base Score: 9.8
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CNA Base Score: 8.7
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Prototype pollution
CWE: CWE-1321 / CWE-94 / CWE-74
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined

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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
Status: 🔍

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Upgrade: Kibana 8.17.1

Timelineinfo

12/11/2024 🔍
04/08/2025 +117 days 🔍
04/08/2025 +0 days 🔍
10/02/2025 +177 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: discuss.elastic.co
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-12556 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-12556
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-304082

Entryinfo

Created: 04/08/2025 23:32
Updated: 10/02/2025 23:34
Changes: 04/08/2025 23:32 (63), 10/02/2025 23:34 (12)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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