High severity · published Aug 9, 2017
CVE-2015-4165
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,…
7.5
CVSS
4.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)4.4% · higher than 91% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
EL
Elasticsearch · Elastic
1.5.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-4165
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-4165
Third Party Advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132234/Elasticsearch-1.5.2-File-Creation.html
www.securityfocus.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535727/100/0/threaded
www.securityfocus.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/536855/100/0/threaded
Mitigation
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75113
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1230761
Vendor Advisory
https://www.elastic.co/community/security/
More from Elasticsearch
9.8
CVE-2015-1427
The Groovy scripting engine in Elasticsearch before 1.3.8 and 1.4.x before 1.4.3 allows remote attackers to bypass the sandbox protection mechanism and execute arbitrary shell…
8.1
CVE-2014-3120
The default configuration in Elasticsearch before 1.2 enables dynamic scripting, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary MVEL expressions and Java code via the source…
9.8
CVE-2015-5377
Elasticsearch before 1.6.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors involving the transport protocol
8.8
CVE-2026-72649
Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Elasticsearch Leading to Remote Code Execution
8.8
CVE-2026-72642
Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset in the Elasticsearch Machine Learning Native Inference Process