🛡️ CVE-2015-1427 — elasticsearch

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-284 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Improper Access Control in Elasticsearch

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 commands via a crafted script.

Weakness class

CVE-2015-1427 is classified as CWE-284: Improper Access Control. The software does not restrict an action to the actors that should be allowed to perform it.

Affected software

CVE-2015-1427 is recorded against 1 package.

  • org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (from 1.4.0 up to 1.4.3)

Timeline and source

Published on 14 May 2022 and last revised on 5 December 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
access.redhat.com (Web)
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com (Web)
www.elastic.co (Web)
packetstormsecurity.com (Web)
packetstormsecurity.com (Web)
www.elasticsearch.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE CWE-284
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-14
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-12-05
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch 1.4.0 1.4.3

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