{"id":"CVE-2021-37938","details":"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.","modified":"2026-03-14T11:05:30.222030Z","published":"2021-11-18T16:15:08.817Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-15-2-security-update/288923"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/elastic/kibana","events":[{"introduced":"095c1cec623b89c03306ef46becbc230597c0e47"},{"fixed":"1fb7cb47c5ffdbd0fae1b8ac24fd84158f33e085"}],"database_specific":{"versions":[{"introduced":"7.9.0"},{"fixed":"7.15.2"}]}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-37938.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"}]}