Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting kibana package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.84% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-KIBANA-5271612
  • published26 Mar 2023
  • disclosed19 Nov 2022

Introduced: 19 Nov 2022

CVE-2021-37936  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 kibana.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kibana package and not the kibana package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1