CVE-2021-37938

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    CVE-2021-37938

    Published: 18 Nov 2021Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-15-2-security-update/288923

    Affected packages

    Package

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    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- a479a2a7fce0389512d6a9361301708b92dff667
    Fixed -93d5a7f6192e8a1a12e154a2b81bf6fa7309da0c

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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