CVE-2021-37938: 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…

PriorityP421medium4.3CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRLUINSUCLINAN

EPSS

0.70%

48.4th percentile

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.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
elastic	kibana	—	—
elastic	kibana	>= 7.9.0 < 7.15.2	7.15.2

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.14.3MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

nvdv2.04.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

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