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CVE-2017-8452

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-8452 describes a resource exhaustion vulnerability in Kibana versions prior to 5.2.1 when configured for SSL client access. This flaw allows file descriptors to accumulate after specific requests, eventually leading to a denial of service as the Kibana process crashes. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), it is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, resulting in high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 5.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
69.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0138 is in the 50th percentile among its peer group of 51,455 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3Fixed in: kibana
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo) Operational ToolsFixed in: kibana
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty) Operational ToolsFixed in: kibana
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka) Operational ToolsFixed in: kibana

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-8452Low

kibana: Resource exhaustion via file descriptors clean up failure

Jul 10, 2017

References

elastic.co / community/security
Vendor Advisory