CVE-2021-22151 (GCVE-0-2021-22151)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-22 00:36 – Updated: 2024-10-11 18:06
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Kibana path traversal issue
Summary
It was discovered that 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.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-10-11 17:51 UTC
CWE
- CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
Assigner
References
2 references
Impacted products
Date Public
2021-09-01 16:10
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