Bug 2148121 (CVE-2021-37936) - CVE-2021-37936 kibana: HTML injection issue (ESA-2021-23)
Summary: CVE-2021-37936 kibana: HTML injection issue (ESA-2021-23)
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2021-37936
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 2144437
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Reported: 2022-11-24 12:57 UTC by Avinash Hanwate
Modified: 2022-12-08 03:32 UTC (History)
18 users (show)

Fixed In Version: kibana 7.14.1
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A flaw was found in Kibana. This issue occurs due to Kibana not sanitizing document fields containing HTML snippets. 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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Last Closed: 2022-12-08 03:32:50 UTC
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Description Avinash Hanwate 2022-11-24 12:57:56 UTC 
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.

https://www.elastic.co/community/security/
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-7-14-1-security-update/283077
Comment 1 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-12-08 03:32:48 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-37936
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