cvelist/2021/37xxx/CVE-2021-37938.json

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        "ASSIGNER": "security@elastic.co",
        "ID": "CVE-2021-37938",
        "STATE": "PUBLIC"
    },
    "affects": {
        "vendor": {
            "vendor_data": [
                {
                    "vendor_name": "Elastic",
                    "product": {
                        "product_data": [
                            {
                                "product_name": "Kibana",
                                "version": {
                                    "version_data": [
                                        {
                                            "version_value": "All versions from 7.9.0 through 7.15.1"
                                        }
                                    ]
                                }
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                }
            ]
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    "problemtype": {
        "problemtype_data": [
            {
                "description": [
                    {
                        "lang": "eng",
                        "value": "CWE-269"
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                ]
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        ]
    },
    "references": {
        "reference_data": [
            {
                "url": "https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-15-2-security-update/288923",
                "refsource": "MISC",
                "name": "https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-15-2-security-update/288923"
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    "description": {
        "description_data": [
            {
                "lang": "eng",
                "value": "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. Thanks to Dominic Couture for finding this vulnerability."
            }
        ]
    }
}