PT-2021-21928 · Elastic · Kibana

Dominic Couture · Published 2021-11-18 · Updated 2021-11-23 · CVE-2021-37938

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Kibana (affected versions not specified)

Description: A security issue was found in Kibana where it failed to validate user-supplied paths on Windows operating systems, allowing malicious users to load internal files with the .pbf extension by arbitrarily traversing the Kibana host. This was discovered by Dominic Couture.

Recommendations: At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Improper Privilege Management

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-269

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2021-37938

Affected Products

Kibana

References · 4

• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-15-2-security-update/288923 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-37938 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-37938 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cvenotify/23686 · Telegram Post