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Medium severity4.3NVD Advisory· Published Nov 18, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026

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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Affected products

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  • Elastic/Kibana3 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=7.9.0,<7.15.2
    • (no CPE)
    • (no CPE)range: All versions from 7.9.0 through 7.15.1

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