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Elastic Kibana Directory Traversal Vulnerability (ESA-2021-26)
Information
Severity
Severity
Low
Family
Family
Web application abuses
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
2.1
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
2 years ago
Modified
Modified
2 years ago
Summary
Kibana is prone to a directory traversal vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
It was discovered that on Windows operating systems specifically, 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 Software
Affected Software
Kibana version 7.9.0 through 7.15.1 on Windows.
Detection Method
Detection Method
Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.
Solution
Solution
Update to version 7.15.2 or later.