Kibana 7.17.23 and 8.15.1 Security Update (ESA-2024-36)

Kibana Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability (ESA-2024-36)

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 Versions:
Kibana versions 7.17.0 to 7.17.22 and versions 8.0.0 to 8.15.0.

Solutions and Mitigations:
Users should upgrade to version 8.15.1 or higher.

Severity: CVSS v3.1: 6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE ID: CVE-2024-52974