vulnerability

Elastic Kibana: CVE-2017-8452: Missing Release of File Descriptor or Handle after Effective Lifetime

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 16, 2017
Added
Sep 3, 2025
Modified
Sep 3, 2025

Description

Kibana versions prior to 5.2.1 configured for SSL client access, file descriptors will fail to be cleaned up after certain requests and will accumulate over time until the process crashes.

Solution

elastic-kibana-upgrade-latest
Title
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