Name: CVE-2024-52972: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2025-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2024-52972, CVSS 6.5, EPSS 0.00381

An allocation of resources without limits or throttling in Kibana can lead to a crash caused by a specially crafted request to /api/metrics/snapshot. This can be carried out by users with read access to the Observability Metrics or Logs features in Kibana.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 6.5
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Elastic Kibana	—	Upgrade Elastic Kibana to the latest version	Sep 3, 2025	Jan 23, 2025

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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