vulnerability
Elastic Kibana: CVE-2021-22151: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N) | Nov 22, 2023 | Sep 3, 2025 | Sep 3, 2025 |
Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Nov 22, 2023
Added
Sep 3, 2025
Modified
Sep 3, 2025
Description
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.
Solution
elastic-kibana-upgrade-latest
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