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CVE-2021-37938 json

It was discovered that on Windows operating systems specifically, Kibana was not validating a user supplied path, which would load .pbf fil…

published 4y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2021-24414

cvss
4.3
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 54%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • elastic kibana 7.15.2

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Exploit prediction

0.72% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 54% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Elastic Kibana

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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