CVE-2021-22140 is a vulnerability in Elastic App Search
Published on May 13, 2021
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 Type
What is a XXE Vulnerability?
The software processes an XML document that can contain XML entities with URIs that resolve to documents outside of the intended sphere of control, causing the product to embed incorrect documents into its output.
CVE-2021-22140 has been classified to as a XXE vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2021-22140
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Affected Versions
Elastic App Search Version after 7.11.0 and before 7.12.0 is affected by CVE-2021-22140Exploit Probability
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