CVE-2024-37281 — An issue was discovered in Kibana where a user with Viewer role could cause a Ki

An issue was discovered in Kibana where a user with Viewer role could cause a Kibana instance to crash by sending a large number of maliciously crafted requests to a specific endpoint.

01What is this vulnerability?

An issue was discovered in Kibana where a user with Viewer role could cause a Kibana instance to crash by sending a large number of maliciously crafted requests to a specific endpoint.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Elastic	Kibana	7.x, 8.x

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2024-07-30T21:45:36.488Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-02T03:50:55.963Z

09References

• discuss.elastic.co — https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-17-23-8-14-0-security-update-esa-2024-16/3…