🛡️ CVE-2015-4165 — 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 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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2015-4165 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-2015-4165 is recorded against 1 package.

  • org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (fixed in 1.6.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 14 May 2022 and last revised on 20 February 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Web)
www.elastic.co (Web)
packetstormsecurity.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-284
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-14
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-02-20
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch — 1.6.0

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