CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-4165
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-08-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The snapshot API in Elasticsearch before 1.6.0 when another application exists on the system that can read Lucene files and execute code from them, is accessible by the attacker, and the Java VM on which Elasticsearch is running can write to a location that the other application can read and execute from, allows remote authenticated users to write to and create arbitrary snapshot metadata files, and potentially execute arbitrary code.
Affected configurations
• elasticsearch elasticsearch 1.5.2
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132234/Elasticsearch-1.5.2-File-Creation.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535727/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/536855/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75113 Mitigation, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1230761 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.elastic.co/community/security/ Vendor Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132234/Elasticsearch-1.5.2-File-Creation.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535727/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/536855/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75113 Mitigation, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1230761 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.elastic.co/community/security/ Vendor Advisory