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CVE-2024-37279

Status: ModifiedMedium (4.3)—

A flaw was discovered in Kibana, allowing view-only users of alerting to use the run_soon API making the alerting rule run continuously, potentially affecting the system availability if the alerting rule is running complex queries.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

Elastic — Kibana

CWEs

References

Raw JSON (NVD)

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