CVE-2021-37939: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

May 24, 2022 (updated July 11, 2023)

It was discovered that Kibana’s JIRA connector & IBM Resilient connector could be used to return HTTP response data on internal hosts, which may be intentionally hidden from public view. Using this vulnerability, a malicious user with the ability to create connectors, could utilize these connectors to view limited HTTP response data on hosts accessible to the cluster.

References

discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-15-2-security-update/288923
github.com/advisories/GHSA-hp5f-qqrw-c8gj
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-37939

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