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CVE-2021-22151: Kibana path traversal issue

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-11-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

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.

Affected products

• Kibana: from 7.9.0 through 7.14.0

References

• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-7-14-1-security-update/283077
• https://www.elastic.co/community/security
• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-7-14-1-security-update/283077
• https://www.elastic.co/community/security

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