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.
Published: 2015-02-17
Score: 9.8 Critical
EPSS: 92.3% High
KEV: Yes
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-w94p-6mhw-4qxw Improper Access Control in Elasticsearch
History

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.93773}

epss

{'score': 0.9373}


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Metrics kev

{'dateAdded': '2022-03-25'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'active', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2025-10-22T00:05:33.236Z

Reserved: 2015-01-31T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-1427

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-06T04:40:18.586Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2015-02-17T15:59:04.560

Modified: 2026-04-22T13:58:19.797

Link: CVE-2015-1427

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2015-02-11T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-1427 - Bugzilla

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