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UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4165 (CVE-2015-4165)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2017-08-09 16:29 – Updated: 2025-07-16 04:50 – Source website

Withdrawn 2025-07-18

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.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4165	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-4165	REPORT

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CVE-2015-4165 (GCVE-0-2015-4165)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-08-09 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:04

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

6 references

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http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132234/Elast…	x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535727/100…	mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75113	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1230761	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/536855/100…	mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://www.elastic.co/community/security/	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Date Public

2015-06-09 00:00

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