CVE-2021-22142

HighCVSS 8.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Kibana contains an embedded version of the Chromium browser that the Reporting feature uses to generate the downloadable reports. If a user with permissions to generate reports is able to render arbitrary HTML with this browser, they may be able to leverage known Chromium vulnerabilities to conduct further attacks. Kibana contains a number of protections to prevent this browser from rendering arbitrary content.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 8.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-1104

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
Elastic	Kibana	>= 7.0.0, < 7.13.0

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-7-13-0-and-6-8-16-security-update/273964/1Vendor Advisory
https://www.elastic.co/community/securityVendor Advisory
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-7-13-0-and-6-8-16-security-update/273964/1Vendor Advisory
https://www.elastic.co/community/securityVendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Nov 22, 2023
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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