| Severity |
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| Remote |
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| Type |
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Unknown |
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Xml external entity injection |
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| Description |
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An XML External Entity Injection issue (XXE) was found 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. |
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| References |
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https://discuss.elastic.co/t/7-12-1-security-update/271433 |
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https://www.elastic.co/blog/introducing-elastic-app-search-web-crawler |
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| Notes |
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This feature is only present in Elastic Enterprise Search, starting from version 7.11. |
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