CVE-2021-22142 json
Kibana Reporting vulnerabilities
published 2y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2021-9293
- cvss
- 6.6
- version 3.1, CNA
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 1.0%
- EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 63%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
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.
Patch / fix
- Elastic Kibana 7.13.0
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red hat product security vex CVE-2021-22142 updated cvss 6.6
kibana: Use of Unmaintained Third Party Components
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Red Hat Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift openshift-logging/kibana6-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 kibana Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 kibana, openshift4/ose-logging-kibana6not affected: vulnerable code not present
Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf
Exploit prediction
1.01% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 63% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNA | 3.1 | 6.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVD | 3.1 | 8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
Affected products
- Elastic Kibana
Classification
- Weakness
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- CWE-1104 Use of Unmaintained Third Party Components
References
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discuss.elastic.co
/t/elastic-stack-7-13-0-and-6-8-16-security-update/273964/1
vendor-advisory
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elastic.co
/community/security
vendor-advisory
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2021-22142
- NVD CVE-2021-22142
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