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CVE-2021-37936

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Published: Nov 18, 2022Modified: Apr 29, 2025

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5.4
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Exploitability: 2.3 / Impact: 2.7
Source: NVD

Description

It 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.

Affected (1)

Products: Elastic: Kibana
Elastic
1 product
Kibana
Configuration A
1 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Kibana
Before 7.14.1

Related CWEs

CWE-79
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.

References (4)

Source: security@elastic.co
MitigationVendor Advisory
Source: security@elastic.co
MitigationVendor Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
MitigationVendor Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
MitigationVendor Advisory

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