CVE-2015-3337
Directory traversal vulnerability in Elasticsearch before 1.4.5 and 1.5.x before 1.5.2, when a site plugin is enabled, allows remote…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 33.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in Elasticsearch before 1.4.5 and 1.5.x before 1.5.2, when a site plugin is enabled, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Nuclei template and an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits3
Nuclei templates1 template
- Elasticsearch - Local File Inclusion (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2015/CVE-2015-3337.yamlSeverity medium
Exploit-DB1 entry
- ElasticSearch < 1.4.5 / < 1.5.2 - Directory Traversal (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 37054webapps, phppublished 18 May 2015Not verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 37054 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 11 days later
· 11 days later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 33.2% · top 1.6% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.elasticsearch:elasticsearchGHSA-x8q8-4hp5-463w (opens in a new tab)
References
6
- 74353 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131646/Elasticsearch-Directory-Traversal.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20150427 Elasticsearch vulnerability CVE-2015-3337 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 37054 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- https://www.elastic.co/community/security (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-3241 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-5748 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-x8q8-4hp5-463w (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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