{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ranges": [
        {
          "database_specific": {
            "versions": [
              {
                "introduced": "7.9.0"
              },
              {
                "fixed": "7.15.2"
              }
            ]
          },
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "095c1cec623b89c03306ef46becbc230597c0e47"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1fb7cb47c5ffdbd0fae1b8ac24fd84158f33e085"
            }
          ],
          "repo": "https://github.com/elastic/kibana",
          "type": "GIT"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "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.",
  "id": "CVE-2021-37938",
  "modified": "2026-03-13T21:58:32.106691469Z",
  "published": "2021-11-18T16:15:08.817Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-15-2-security-update/288923"
    }
  ],
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}