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CVE-2021-37938

Published: Nov 18, 2021

Modified: Aug 4, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Elastic	Kibana	affected `All versions from 7.9.0 through 7.15.1`

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-15-2-security-update/288923

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