CVE-2021-37938

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-22 Path Traversal
Publication date:
18/11/2021
Last modified:
23/11/2021

Description

It was discovered that on Windows operating systems specifically, Kibana was not validating a user supplied path, which would load .pbf files. Because of this, a malicious user could arbitrarily traverse the Kibana host to load internal files ending in the .pbf extension. Thanks to Dominic Couture for finding this vulnerability.

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 7.9.0 (including) 7.15.2 (excluding)


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