CVE-2015-5531

Summary

CVECVE-2015-5531
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-08-17 15:59:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-09 19:57:00 UTC
DescriptionDirectory traversal vulnerability in Elasticsearch before 1.6.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors related to snapshot API calls.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-22

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Elasticsearch Elasticsearch All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
ElasticSearch Path Traversal Arbitrary File Download ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
Elasticsearch CVE-2015-5531 Directory Traversal Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
Security issues | Elastic CONFIRM www.elastic.co Vendor Advisory
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
Elasticsearch Directory Traversal ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
ElasticSearch 1.6.0 - Arbitrary File Download - Linux webapps Exploit EXPLOIT-DB www.exploit-db.com
ElasticSearch Snapshot API Directory Traversal ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 690257 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for elasticsearch (ae8c09cb-32da-11e5-a4a5-002590263bf5)
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