CVE-2024-52974: Elastic Kibana

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

An issue has been identified where a specially crafted request sent to an Observability API could cause the kibana server to crash. A successful attack requires a malicious user to have read permissions for Observability assigned to them.

Affected products

• Elastic Kibana: from 7.17.0, before 7.17.23 (fixed in 7.17.23); from 8.0.0, before 8.15.1 (fixed in 8.15.1)

Published 2025-04-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.