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
Any of the following Kibana privileges are additionally required
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{
"source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
"extracted_events": [
{
"introduced": "8.10.0"
},
{
"last_affected": "8.15.0"
}
]
}
],
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-502"
],
"cna_assigner": "elastic",
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/37xxx/CVE-2024-37285.json"
}