Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 18, 2021· Updated Aug 4, 2024
CVE-2021-37938
CVE-2021-37938
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.
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References
1- discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-15-2-security-update/288923mitrex_refsource_MISC
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