high
CVE-2015-5531
Elasticsearch before 1.6.1: the snapshot/restore repository location is not confined to path.repo, so a crafted repository name reads arbitrary files
- Severity
- high
- Affected product
- Elasticsearch
- Affected versions
- Elasticsearch < 1.6.1
- Fixed in
- Elasticsearch 1.6.1
- Detection basis
- Component version range
- Shipped rule
- Elasticsearch: Elasticsearch before 1.6.1: the snapshot/restore repository location is not confined to path.repo, so a crafted repository name reads arbitrary files
- 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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