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CVE-2021-22151

LOW
Published 2023-11-22T00:36:51.150Z
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CVSS Score

V3.1
3.1
/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Base Score Metrics
Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

EPSS Score

v2025.03.14
0.008
probability
of exploitation in the wild

There is a 0.8% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Updated: 2025-06-25
Exploit Probability
Percentile: 0.731
Higher than 73.1% of all CVEs

Attack Vector Metrics

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED

Impact Metrics

Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE

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.

Available Exploits

No exploits available for this CVE.

Related News

No news articles found for this CVE.

Affected Products

Elastic

Kibana

Affected Versions:

7.9.0

GitHub Security Advisories

Community-driven vulnerability intelligence from GitHub

⚠ Unreviewed LOW

GHSA-rj62-3vmp-2f6j

Advisory Details

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.

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

2.5

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-22151
WEB https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-7-14-1-security-update/283077
WEB https://www.elastic.co/community/security

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: November 22, 2023, Modified: November 22, 2023

References

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

HackerOne Reports

Fix for CVE-2021-22151 (Kibana path traversal issue) can be bypassed on Windows Low
dee-see
Elastic
Path Traversal
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Published: 2023-11-22T00:36:51.150Z
Last Modified: 2024-10-11T18:06:45.178Z
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