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CVE-2021-22151

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-22151 describes a path traversal vulnerability in Elastic Kibana where the application failed to validate user-supplied paths. This flaw allowed an authenticated attacker to load arbitrary internal files ending in the .pbf extension from the Kibana host. Rated as Medium severity (CVSS 4.3), the vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires low privileges, potentially leading to information disclosure. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 7.9.0, <= 7.14.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 7.9.0, < 7.14.0CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

3.1LOW

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.6
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.70%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
49.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0070 is in the 60th percentile among its peer group of 21,974 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

discuss.elastic.co / t/elastic-stack-7-14-1-security-update/283077
Vendor Advisory
elastic.co / community/security
Vendor Advisory