Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-12556

High

Published: 08 April 2025

Published
08 April 2025
Modified
02 October 2025
KEV Added
Patch
2025-02-37
CVSS Score v3.1 8.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0045 63.9th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-12556 is a high-severity Prototype Pollution (CWE-1321) vulnerability in Elastic Kibana. Its CVSS base score is 8.7 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 36.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

elastic
kibana
8.16.1 — 8.16.4 · 8.17.0 — 8.17.2

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References