High severity · published Jun 10, 2025
CVE-2024-43706
Improper authorization in Kibana can lead to privilege abuse via a direct HTTP request to a Synthetic monitor endpoint
8.8
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Improper authorization in Kibana can lead to privilege abuse via a direct HTTP request to a Synthetic monitor endpoint.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 38% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KI
Kibana · Elastic
through 8.12.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-43706
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-43706
Issue Tracking
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-12-1-security-update-esa-2024-21/379064
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