CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-12556

Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes ('Prototype Pollution')

Published: Apr 08, 2025 | Modified: Oct 02, 2025
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Prototype Pollution in Kibana can lead to code injection via unrestricted file upload combined with path traversal.

Weakness

The product receives input from an upstream component that specifies attributes that are to be initialized or updated in an object, but it does not properly control modifications of attributes of the object prototype.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Kibana Elastic 8.16.1 (including) 8.16.4 (excluding)
Kibana Elastic 8.17.0 (including) 8.17.2 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References