CVE-2015-4165 Improper Access Control in Elasticsearch

What is CVE-2015-4165?

CVE-2015-4165 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in n/a, published on 9 Aug 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-4165?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch. It affects 1 product.

Products include Elasticsearch Elasticsearch.

How do I fix CVE-2015-4165?

Upgrade org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch to 1.6.0 or later.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2015-4165 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-4165 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2015-5531 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory in Elasticsearch Medium 5.0
• CVE-2015-3337 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory in Elasticsearch Medium 4.3
• CVE-2014-6439 Cross-site scripting in Elasticsearch Medium 4.3

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-fh5x-4j57-6q5x.