CVE-2021-22151: Elastic Kibana

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Elastic Kibana: from 7.9.0, up to and including 7.14.0

Published 2023-11-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.