High severity · published Nov 22, 2023
CVE-2021-22142
Kibana contains an embedded version of the Chromium browser that the Reporting feature uses to generate the downloadable reports
8.8
CVSS
1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Kibana contains an embedded version of the Chromium browser that the Reporting feature uses to generate the downloadable reports. If a user with permissions to generate reports is able to render arbitrary HTML with this browser, they may be able to leverage known Chromium vulnerabilities to conduct further attacks. Kibana contains a number of protections to prevent this browser from rendering arbitrary content.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.0% · higher than 63% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KI
Kibana · Elastic
7.0.0 before 7.13.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-22142
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-22142
Vendor Advisory
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-7-13-0-and-6-8-16-security-update/273964/1
Vendor Advisory
https://www.elastic.co/community/security
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