CVE-2021-37938

Summary

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 Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
ElasticKibanaAll versions from 7.9.0 through 7.15.1affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-269: CWE-269

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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