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CVE-2015-1427
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…
Critical9.8Known exploitedEPSS 99.9%
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- mitre
Description
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.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Elasticsearch Groovy Scripting Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability.
- Added
- 25 Mar 2022
- Fix due (US federal)
- 15 Apr 2022
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
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Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 99.9% · top 0.1% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
- n/a
- CWE-noinfo Not enough information
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.elasticsearch:elasticsearchGHSA-w94p-6mhw-4qxw (opens in a new tab)
References (9)
- 20150211 Elasticsearch vulnerability CVE-2015-1427 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130784/ElasticSearch-Unauthenticated-Remote-Code-Execution.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0868 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 72585 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.elasticsearch.com/blog/elasticsearch-1-4-3-1-3-8-released/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- elasticsearch-cve20151427-command-exec(100850) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130368/Elasticsearch-1.3.7-1.4.2-Sandbox-Escape-Command-Execution.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.elastic.co/community/security/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2015-1427 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-w94p-6mhw-4qxw (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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