CVE-2021-22140

HIGH

7.5

Description

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score7.5

SeverityHIGH

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

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published5/13/2021

Last Modified11/21/2024

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

elastic:elastic_app_search

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-611CWE-611

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/7-12-1-security-update/271433(security@elastic.co)

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/7-12-1-security-update/271433(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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