VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2021-37938

CVSS score4.3 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.72%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2021-11-18
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

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.

Weakness classification

  • security@elastic.co: CWE-269
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-22

Primary references