UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4165

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4165

    Published: 9 Aug 2017Last Modified: 16 Jul 2025
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    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: elasticsearch

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+dfsg-3?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.7.3+dfsg-3

    Affected versions

    1.6.2+dfsg-1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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