CVE-2015-4165
The snapshot API in Elasticsearch before 1.6.0 when another application exists on the system that can read Lucene files and execute code…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 4.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The snapshot API in Elasticsearch before 1.6.0 when another application exists on the system that can read Lucene files and execute code from them, is accessible by the attacker, and the Java VM on which Elasticsearch is running can write to a location that the other application can read and execute from, allows remote authenticated users to write to and create arbitrary snapshot metadata files, and potentially execute arbitrary code.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 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 | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.5% · top 8.5% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.elasticsearch:elasticsearchGHSA-fh5x-4j57-6q5x (opens in a new tab)
References
6
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132234/Elasticsearch-1.5.2-File-Creation.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20150609 Elasticsearch vulnerability CVE-2015-4165 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 75113 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1230761 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20151106 Elasticsearch vulnerability CVE-2015-4165 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- https://www.elastic.co/community/security/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2022-3784 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-fh5x-4j57-6q5x (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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