CVE-2021-22140 (GCVE-0-2021-22140)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-05-13 17:35
Modified
2024-08-03 18:30
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-611 - Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
Summary
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
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| Elastic | Elastic App Search |
Version: after 7.11.0 and before 7.12.0 |
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Sightings
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