CVE-2015-1427
CRITICAL severity · CVSS 9.8 · actively exploited (CISA KEV)
9.8CVSS CRITICAL ● exploited
🔴 Actively exploited in the wild (CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities).
Added to KEV 2022-03-25. US federal agencies must patch by 2022-04-15.
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)92%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
This vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild — patch affected products urgently. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://www.elasticsearch.com/blog/elasticsearch-1-4-3-1-3-8-released/ ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://www.elasticsearch.com/blog/elasticsearch-1-4-3-1-3-8-released/Patch
- https://www.elastic.co/community/security/Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130368/Elasticsearch-1.3.7-1.4.2-Sandbox-Escape-Command-Execution.htmlAdvisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534689/100/0/threadedAdvisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72585Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0868Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100850Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130784/ElasticSearch-Unauthenticated-Remote-Code-Execution.htmlAdvisory