CVE-2021-22140

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-611

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: May 13, 2021
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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