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CVE-2015-1427 — Elasticsearch Groovy Scripting Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

provenance: imported · CVE: CVE-2015-1427 · CWE: CWE-284

CVE-2015-1427: Elasticsearch Groovy Scripting Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)

Vendor / project Elastic
Product Elasticsearch
Date added 2022-03-25
Due date 2022-04-15
Ransomware campaign use Unknown

Description

The Groovy scripting engine in Elasticsearch allows remote attackers to bypass the sandbox protection mechanism and execute arbitrary shell commands.

Required action (CISA)

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Notes

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-1427

Weakness behind it

CISA records this vulnerability as an instance of CWE-284. From there the chain continues into CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques, all inside this corpus.

References

  • NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-1427
  • KEV catalog: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog

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