Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-22151
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:38 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2021-22151
Complete source record
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