CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-37936

5.4 MEDIUM Published 2022-11-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-11-18
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
5.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-79

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 configurations

• elastic kibana (< 7.14.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness

References