medium4.3
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.
Impact
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 products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Elastic | Kibana | from 7.9.0 before 7.15.2 |