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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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-24414 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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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: elastic

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T01:30:09.047Z

Reserved: 2021-08-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-37938

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Status : Modified

Published: 2021-11-18T16:15:08.817

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:16:06.607

Link: CVE-2021-37938

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