CVE-2015-5531

EPSS 92.0%

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory in Elasticsearch

Published: 5/14/2022Modified: 12/5/2024

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Elasticsearch before 1.6.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors related to snapshot API calls.

Affected packages (1)

Maven/org.elasticsearch:elasticsearchfrom 0, < 1.6.1

References (6)

ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5531
WEBhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132721/Elasticsearch-Directory-Traversal.html
WEBhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133797/ElasticSearch-Path-Traversal-Arbitrary-File-Download.html
WEBhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133964/ElasticSearch-Snapshot-API-Directory-Traversal.html
WEBhttps://www.elastic.co/community/security
WEBhttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38383