CVE-2021-37936
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.
Published:Nov 18, 2022
Last Modified:Apr 29, 2025
EPS:Nov 18, 2022
EPSS Score:0.00967
CVSS Score:5.4
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Elastic
Product
Kibana
Elastic
Kibana
Exploits
No exploit reference
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Related CVEs
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
