Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting kibana package, versions >=7.17.0 <8.15.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-KIBANA-10337950
  • published12 Jun 2025
  • disclosed8 Apr 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Apr 2025

CVE-2024-52974  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade kibana to version 8.15.1 or higher.

Overview

kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser-based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling through a specially crafted request sent to an Observability API. An attacker can cause the server to crash by sending this request. This is only exploitable if the attacker has read permissions for Observability assigned to them.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1