CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-37938

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2021-11-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-11-18
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-22, CWE-269

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.

Affected configurations

• elastic kibana (>= 7.9.0 < 7.15.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References