CVE-2015-4165
high
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.5
Description
Improper Access Control in Elasticsearch
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch | <1.6.0 | 1.6.0 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| elasticsearch | elasticsearch | 1.5.2 | |
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132234/Elasticsearch-1.5.2-File-Creation.html
- 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
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1230761
- https://www.elastic.co/community/security/
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-4165
- https://www.elastic.co/community/security
CWEs
CWE-264
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.