CVE-2015-1427 - Improper Access Control

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Elasticsearch

First reported 10 years ago

2015-02-17 15:59:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-09 19:55:00

Affected Software

Elasticsearch 1.4.0

1.4.0

Elasticsearch 1.4.0 Beta1

1.4.0

Elasticsearch 1.4.1

1.4.1

Elasticsearch 1.4.2

1.4.2

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130368/Elasticsearch-1.3.7-1.4.2-Sandbox-Escape-Command-Execution.html

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130784/ElasticSearch-Unauthenticated-Remote-Code-Execution.html

Exploit

http://www.elasticsearch.com/blog/elasticsearch-1-4-3-1-3-8-released/

Patch, Vendor Advisory

20150211 Elasticsearch vulnerability CVE-2015-1427

72585

RHSA-2017:0868

elasticsearch-cve20151427-command-exec(100850)

https://www.elastic.co/community/security/

Vendor Advisory

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