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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, 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.

Severity
Medium 4.3
Published
18 Nov 2021
Last changed
17 Jun 2026
Added to UpHeron
1 Nov 2026
Fixed in
7.15.2
Sources
NVD

Affected software

SoftwareAffected versions
KibanaServers and applications · cpe:a:elastic:kibana
  • From 7.9.0 before 7.15.2

References

  • NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-37938
  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-37938