CVE-2021-37936

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-37936
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-11-18 23:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-11-22 20:28:00 UTC
DescriptionIt was discovered that Kibana was not sanitizing document fields containing HTML snippets. Using this vulnerability, an attacker with the ability to write documents to an elasticsearch index could inject HTML. When the Discover app highlighted a search term containing the HTML, it would be rendered for the user.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-79

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Elastic Kibana All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Security issues | Elastic MISC www.elastic.co
discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-7-14-1-security-update/283077 MISC discuss.elastic.co
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 375877 Kibana Multiple Security Vulnerabilities (ESA-2021-21, ESA-2021-22, ESA-2021-23, ESA-2021-24)
  • 375893 Kibana Multiple HTML Injection Vulnerability (ESA-2021-23)
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