CVE-2015-4165

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Summary

CVECVE-2015-4165
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-08-09 16:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-09 19:57:00 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-264

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Elasticsearch Elasticsearch 1.5.2 All All All
Application Elasticsearch Elasticsearch 1.5.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Elasticsearch CVE-2015-4165 Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Mitigation, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Elasticsearch 1.5.2 File Creation ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
Security issues | Elastic CONFIRM www.elastic.co Vendor Advisory
1230761 – (CVE-2015-4165) CVE-2015-4165 elasticsearch: unspecified arbitrary files modification vulnerability CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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