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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2021-22151
CVE-2021-22151:
Kibana vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
A path traversal vulnerability was discovered in Kibana versions 7.9.0 through 7.14.0. The vulnerability exists because Kibana was not validating user-supplied paths when loading .pbf files, allowing malicious users to arbitrarily traverse the Kibana host system to access internal files with the .pbf extension (Elastic Advisory).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as CWE-22 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory) with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 3.1 LOW (Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N) as assessed by Elastic, while NIST assessed it with a score of 4.3 MEDIUM (Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N) (NVD).
Impact
The vulnerability allows an attacker to read internal files with .pbf extension on the Kibana host system, potentially exposing sensitive information (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
Users should upgrade to Kibana version 7.14.1 to address this vulnerability (Elastic Advisory).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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