Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Elasticsearch - CVE-2015-4165

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Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Elasticsearch - CVE-2015-4165

Published: August 9, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU38510
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-4165
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Elastic Stack
Affected software:
Elasticsearch

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated user to execute arbitrary code.

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 to mitigate CVE-2015-4165

Install update from vendor's website.

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