elastic elasticsearch CVE-2015-1427 in Elastic and Red Hat Products
Published on February 17, 2015

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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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Known Exploited Vulnerability

This Elasticsearch Groovy Scripting Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. The Groovy scripting engine in Elasticsearch allows remote attackers to bypass the sandbox protection mechanism and execute arbitrary shell commands.

The following remediation steps are recommended / required by April 15, 2022: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2015-1427 can be exploited with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. It has the highest possible exploitability rating (3.9). The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be critical as this vulnerability has a high impact to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of this component.


Products Associated with CVE-2015-1427

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