critical
CVE-2015-1427
Elasticsearch before 1.3.8: the Groovy scripting sandbox can be escaped, so a dynamic script submitted to _search runs arbitrary code
- Severity
- critical
- Affected product
- Elasticsearch
- Affected versions
- Elasticsearch < 1.3.8
- Affected versions
- Elasticsearch ≥ 1.4.0, < 1.4.3
- Fixed in
- Elasticsearch 1.3.8
- Fixed in
- Elasticsearch 1.4.3
- Detection basis
- Component version range
- Shipped rule
- Elasticsearch: Elasticsearch before 1.3.8: the Groovy scripting sandbox can be escaped, so a dynamic script submitted to _search runs arbitrary code
Elasticsearch: Elasticsearch 1.4.x before 1.4.3: the Groovy scripting sandbox can be escaped, so a dynamic script submitted to _search runs arbitrary code - 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.
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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