VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2021-22140

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability1.27%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2021-05-13
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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.

Weakness classification

  • security@elastic.co: CWE-611
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-611

Primary references