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CVE-2021-37936
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.4
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2022-11-18T23:15:19.060 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:01:16.953

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 products

elastic — kibana

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References

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