CVE-2021-22140

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: May 13, 2021
Updated: Aug 3, 2024
Reserved: Jan 4, 2021

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Elastic App SearchElastic	after 7.11.0 and before 7.12.0Affected

References

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

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