CVE-2021-22140

Elastic App Search versions after 7.11.0 and before 7.12.0 contain an XML External Entity Injection issue (XXE) in the App Search web crawler beta feature. Using this vector, an attacker whose website is being crawled by App Search could craft a malicious sitemap.xml to traverse the filesystem of the host running the instance and obtain sensitive files.
References
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elastic_app_search:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

21 May 2021, 18:09

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References (MISC) https://discuss.elastic.co/t/7-12-1-security-update/271433 - (MISC) https://discuss.elastic.co/t/7-12-1-security-update/271433 - Vendor Advisory
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : 5.0
v3 : 7.5
CPE cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elastic_app_search:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CWE CWE-611

13 May 2021, 18:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2021-05-13 18:15

Updated : 2023-12-10 13:55


NVD link : CVE-2021-22140

Mitre link : CVE-2021-22140

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2021-22140


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Products Affected

elastic

  • elastic_app_search
CWE
CWE-611

Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference