CVE-2021-37938 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

4.3