CVE detail

CVE-2021-22140 — CVE-2021-22140

Published 2021-05-13 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor elastic · Product elastic_app_search · Source nvd

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

7.5

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0127

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

67.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

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.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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