CVE-2021-22140

Search: App Search XML External Entity Injection

Published May 13, 2021 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS 1.3% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-9291 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.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
elastic
Published
Updated
Aug 3, 2024, 6:30 PM
Reserved
Jan 4, 2021, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
May 13, 2021, 6:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:36 AM
Severity
Important
Public date
Apr 27, 2021, 12:00 AM