Vulnerability Name:

CVE-2021-22140 (CCN-201796)

Assigned:2021-04-28
Published:2021-04-28
Updated:2021-05-21
Summary: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.
CVSS v3 Severity:7.5 High (CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
6.5 Medium (Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)
Exploitability Metrics:Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope:Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): None
Availibility (A): None
5.3 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
4.6 Medium (CCN Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)
Exploitability Metrics:Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope:Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): None
Availibility (A): None
CVSS v2 Severity:5.0 Medium (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Exploitability Metrics:Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): Partial
Integrity (I): None
Availibility (A): None
4.9 Medium (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Exploitability Metrics:Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): High
Athentication (Au): Single_Instance
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): None
Availibility (A): None
Vulnerability Type:CWE-611
Vulnerability Consequences:Obtain Information
References:Source: MITRE
Type: CNA
CVE-2021-22140

Source: CCN
Type: Elastic ESA-2021-11
App Search XML External Entity Injection issue (ESA-2021-11)

Source: MISC
Type: Vendor Advisory
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/7-12-1-security-update/271433

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
elasticsearch-cve202122140-info-disc(201796)

Vulnerable Configuration:Configuration 1:
  • cpe:/a:elastic:elastic_app_search:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (Version >= 7.11.0 and < 7.12.0)

    • Configuration CCN 1:
  • cpe:/a:elastic:elasticsearch:7.11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

    • * Denotes that component is vulnerable
    BACK
    elastic elastic app search *
    elastic elasticsearch 7.11.0