CVE-2024-52973: Elastic Kibana

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Elastic Kibana: before 7.17.23 (fixed in 7.17.23); from 8.0.0, before 8.14.2 (fixed in 8.14.2)

Published 2025-01-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.