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GHSA-W94P-6MHW-4QXW

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-14 02:49 – Updated: 2022-07-06 20:26

Summary

Improper Access Control in Elasticsearch

Details

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.

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  "modified": "2022-07-06T20:26:29Z",
  "published": "2022-05-14T02:49:44Z",
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    },
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CVE-2015-1427 (GCVE-0-2015-1427)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-02-17 15:00 – Updated: 2025-10-22 00:05

Summary

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: active Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-02-10 19:05 UTC

CWE

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2362 records in the last 180 days details

References

9 references

URL	Tags
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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0868	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72585	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.elasticsearch.com/blog/elasticsearch-1…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit…	vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130368/Elast…	x_refsource_MISC
https://www.elastic.co/community/security/	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilit…	government-resource

Date Public

2015-02-11 00:00

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