VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2021-37936

CVSS score5.4 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.50%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2022-11-18
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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.

Weakness classification

  • security@elastic.co: CWE-79
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-79

Primary references