GHSA-jjq8-vfjq-j6v4

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory in Elasticsearch

At a glance

Published: 2022-05-14 02:48 UTC
Updated: 2024-12-05 05:43 UTC
CVE: CVE-2015-5531

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

Package	Versions
Maven · org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch	introduced 0, fixed 1.6.1

References

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

Sources

Source	Licence
OSV.dev	CC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database