CVE-2021-22151 Kibana path traversal issue
A malicious user can traverse the Kibana host to read internal files ending in .pbf due to lack of path validation.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2021-22151?
CVE-2021-22151 is a low-severity path traversal vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, published on 22 Nov 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-22
Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-22151?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Elastic Kibana.
How do I fix CVE-2021-22151?
No fix has been published for CVE-2021-22151 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2021-22151 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-22151 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Elastic Kibana
Sources
Also known as GHSA-rj62-3vmp-2f6j.