CVE-2017-8452 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Kibana versions prior to 5.2.1 configured for SSL client access, file descriptors will fail to be cleaned up after certain requests and will accumulate over time until the process crashes.

Published: 2017-06-16

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Elastic

Kibana

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`before 5.2.1`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2017-17402	Kibana versions prior to 5.2.1 configured for SSL client access, file descriptors will fail to be cleaned up after certain requests and will accumulate over time until the process crashes.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00381.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8452
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8452
https://www.elastic.co/community/security

History

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Subscriptions

Elastic Kibana

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: elastic

Published: 2017-06-16T21:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T16:34:23.316Z

Reserved: 2017-05-02T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-8452

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-06-16T21:29:00.680

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-8452

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-07-10T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-8452 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

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