What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

November 18, 2021 CVE published
August 4, 2024 Record updated