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TI-2021-05130 Aliases CVE-2021-22140GHSA-6j6p-6hm2-m4qc

XML external entity injection in Elastic App Search

Priority LOW 35CWE-611Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Information disclosure
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · None · None
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-611 and the CVSS impact.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.0127 69th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
ElasticElastic App Searchafter 7.11.0 and before 7.12.0—No fix listedCNA
  • Elastic App Search VendorElastic Affected after 7.11.0 and before 7.12.0 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elastic_app_search:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*7.11.0 to before 7.12.0VulnerableElastic
  • cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elastic_app_search:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 7.11.0 to before 7.12.0 Vulnerable ·Elastic

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Important. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Not affected: 13 products
  • OpenShift Service Mesh 1
  • OpenShift Service Mesh 2.0
  • Red Hat Decision Manager 7
  • Red Hat Fuse 7
  • Red Hat Integration Camel K 1
  • Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6
  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6
  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton)
  • Red Hat Process Automation 7
  • Red Hat Quay 3

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2021-22140
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-6j6p-6hm2-m4qc

References

Advisory 1

  • TI-2020-05659 Cross-site scripting in Elastic App Search CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1

Sources

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