# Kibana 7.15.2 Security Update

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-15-2-security-update/288923>\
**Category:** Security Announcements\
**Created:** [November 10, 2021, 7:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-15-2-security-update/288923 "2021-11-10T19:18:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![douglasday](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/douglasday/32/74044_2.png) [@douglasday](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/douglasday)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2021, 7:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-15-2-security-update/288923/1 "2021-11-10T19:18:19Z")

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**Kibana Path Traversal issue (ESA-2021-26)**

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.

**Affected Versions:**

All versions from 7.9.0 through 7.15.1

**Solutions and Mitigations:**  
Users should upgrade to Kibana version 7.15.2

**CVSSv3:** 3.1 - AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N  
**CVE ID:** CVE-2021-37938

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**Kibana Information Disclosure issue (ESA-2021-27)**

It was discovered that Kibana’s JIRA connector & IBM Resilient connector could be used to return HTTP response data on internal hosts, which may be intentionally hidden from public view. Using this vulnerability, a malicious user with the ability to create connectors, could utilize these connectors to view limited HTTP response data on hosts accessible to the cluster.

**Affected Versions:**

All versions from 7.8.0 through 7.15.1

**Solutions and Mitigations:**

Users should upgrade to Kibana version 7.15.2

**CVSSv3** : 4.1 - AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N  
**CVE ID:** CVE-2021-37939

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 8:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-15-2-security-update/288923/2 "2022-11-04T08:32:59Z")

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