CVE-2021-37940: Elastic Enterprise Search

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An information disclosure via GET request server-side request forgery vulnerability was discovered with the Workplace Search Github Enterprise Server integration. Using this vulnerability, a malicious Workplace Search admin could use the GHES integration to view hosts that might not be publicly accessible.

Affected products

  • Elastic Enterprise Search: before 7.16.0 (fixed in 7.16.0)

Published 2021-12-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.