vulnerability

Elastic Kibana: CVE-2021-37936: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Nov 18, 2022
Added
Sep 3, 2025
Modified
Sep 3, 2025

Description

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.

Solution

elastic-kibana-upgrade-latest
Title
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