CVE-2021-22140
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-05-13 17:35
Modified
2024-08-03 18:30
Severity ?
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
bressers@elastic.cohttps://discuss.elastic.co/t/7-12-1-security-update/271433Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://discuss.elastic.co/t/7-12-1-security-update/271433Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Elastic Elastic App Search Version: after 7.11.0 and before 7.12.0
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