CVE-2021-22140

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
ElasticElastic App Searchafter 7.11.0 and before 7.12.0affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-611: CWE-611: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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