CVE-2015-5531

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Summary

CVECVE-2015-5531
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-08-17 15:59:02 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 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

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Problem Types: CWE-22 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
None
Availability
None

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Elasticsearch Elasticsearch All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
ElasticSearch Path Traversal Arbitrary File Download ≈ Packet Storm af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 packetstormsecurity.com
Security issues | Elastic af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.elastic.co Vendor Advisory
ElasticSearch 1.6.0 - Arbitrary File Download - Linux webapps Exploit af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.exploit-db.com
Elasticsearch Directory Traversal ≈ Packet Storm af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 packetstormsecurity.com
Elasticsearch CVE-2015-5531 Directory Traversal Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
ElasticSearch Snapshot API Directory Traversal ≈ Packet Storm af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 packetstormsecurity.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.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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