Name: CVE-2021-22151: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2023-11-22T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2021-22151, CWE-22, CVSS 3.1, EPSS 0.00704

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.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 3.1
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Elastic Kibana	—	Upgrade Elastic Kibana to the latest version	Sep 3, 2025	Nov 22, 2023

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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