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BIT-elk-2024-37285

Published Nov 16, 2024·Last modified Oct 2, 2025
Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

A deserialization issue in Kibana can lead to arbitrary code execution when Kibana attempts to parse a YAML document containing a crafted payload. A successful attack requires a malicious user to have a combination of both specific Elasticsearch indices privileges https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/defining-roles.html#roles-indices-priv  and Kibana privileges https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/fleet/current/fleet-roles-and-privileges.html  assigned to them.

The following Elasticsearch indices permissions are required

  • write privilege on the system indices .kibana_ingest*
  • The allow_restricted_indices flag is set to true

Any of the following Kibana privileges are additionally required

  • Under Fleet the All privilege is granted
  • Under Integration the Read or All privilege is granted
  • Access to the fleet-setup privilege is gained through the Fleet Server’s service account token
Risk Scores
Base Score
0.0

Measures severity based on intrinsic characteristics of the vulnerability, independent of environment.

Threat Intelligence
0.0

No exploitation activity has been observed at this time. Continue routine monitoring.

EPSS
N/A

Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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