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.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-24412 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.
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Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: elastic

Published:

Updated: 2025-04-29T14:41:56.213Z

Reserved: 2021-08-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-37936

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T01:30:09.032Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-11-18T23:15:19.060

Modified: 2025-04-29T15:15:46.710

Link: CVE-2021-37936

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2022-11-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-37936 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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