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.
References
Link | Resource |
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http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132234/Elasticsearch-1.5.2-File-Creation.html | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535727/100/0/threaded | |
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/536855/100/0/threaded | |
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75113 | Mitigation Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1230761 | Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
https://www.elastic.co/community/security/ | Vendor Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2017-08-09T16:00:00
Updated: 2018-10-09T18:57:01
Reserved: 2015-06-02T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2015-4165
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2017-08-09T16:29:00.253
Modified: 2018-10-09T19:57:07.890
Link: CVE-2015-4165
JSON object: View
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CWE