Security Advisory

CVE-2021-37936

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2022-11-18 00:00:00
Last updated 2025-04-29 14:41:56
Assigner elastic
State PUBLISHED

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.