CVE-2021-37936

Summary

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 Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
ElasticKibanaversions before 7.14.1affected

Weaknesses

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

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References