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CVE-2015-5531
Directory traversal vulnerability in Elasticsearch before 1.6.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors…
Medium5.0EPSS 94.8%
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- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 94.8% · top 0.1% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.elasticsearch:elasticsearchGHSA-jjq8-vfjq-j6v4 (opens in a new tab)
References (7)
- 20150716 Elasticsearch CVE-2015-5531 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132721/Elasticsearch-Directory-Traversal.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133964/ElasticSearch-Snapshot-API-Directory-Traversal.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 75935 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133797/ElasticSearch-Path-Traversal-Arbitrary-File-Download.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
- 38383 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-jjq8-vfjq-j6v4 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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