CVE-2015-5531
CVE-2015-5531
Vexday Risk Score
82Fix now
SSVC decision (CISA)
Act
Exploitation + impact → act immediately
Exploit maturity
Functional exploit
Popular PoC on GitHub (2 stars) — exploitation code widely available.
CVSS —EPSS 91.8%KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei simMetasploit simPatch —
Lifecycle
17 Aug 2015Published on NVD
02 Oct 2015Public PoC
Weaponization speed
45 daysto first PoC
Recommendation: Patch as soon as possible — active exploitation confirmed.
Directory traversal vulnerability in Elasticsearch before 1.6.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors related to snapshot API calls.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 9
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References
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132721/Elasticsearch-Directory-Traversal.htmlhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133797/ElasticSearch-Path-Traversal-Arbitrary-File-Download.htmlhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133964/ElasticSearch-Snapshot-API-Directory-Traversal.htmlhttps://www.elastic.co/community/security/https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38383/http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/536017/100/0/threadedhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75935