critical
CVE-2014-3120
Elasticsearch before 1.2: dynamic scripting is enabled by default, so the source parameter of _search executes attacker-supplied MVEL - unauthenticated remote code execution
- Severity
- critical
- Affected product
- Elasticsearch
- Affected versions
- Elasticsearch < 1.2.0
- Fixed in
- Elasticsearch 1.2.0
- Detection basis
- Component version range
- Shipped rule
- Elasticsearch: Elasticsearch before 1.2: dynamic scripting is enabled by default, so the source parameter of _search executes attacker-supplied MVEL - unauthenticated remote code execution
- Added to NewScan
- 2026-10-15
- Detected by
- NewScan — free, self-hosted
How NewScan reports it
COMPONENT VERSION RANGE
NewScan fingerprints Elasticsearch from its response and reports this CVE when the detected version falls inside the affected range below.
References
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