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CVE-2021-22140

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: May 13, 2021 at 05:35 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:36 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorElastic App Search

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Elastic App Search· Elasticelastic-plugin
95%
v < 7.12.07.11.0 ≤ v < 7.12.0
Affected range stops below 7.12.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (1)

x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/7-12-1-security-update/271433

CVSS

7.5HIGH[email protected]
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-611

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