CVE-2015-5531
Directory traversal vulnerability in Elasticsearch before 1.6.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 94.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in Elasticsearch before 1.6.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors related to snapshot API calls.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module, a Nuclei template and an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits4
Metasploit modules1 module
- ElasticSearch Snapshot API Directory Traversal (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/scanner/http/elasticsearch_traversalRank normal
Nuclei templates1 template
- ElasticSearch <1.6.1 - Local File Inclusion (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2015/CVE-2015-5531.yamlSeverity medium
Exploit-DB1 entry
- ElasticSearch 1.6.0 - Arbitrary File Download (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 38383webapps, linuxpublished 2 Oct 2015Not verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 38383 (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
- 32 days later
· 32 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 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 94.8% · top 0.1% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.elasticsearch:elasticsearchGHSA-jjq8-vfjq-j6v4 (opens in a new tab)
References
7
- 20150716 Elasticsearch CVE-2015-5531 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132721/Elasticsearch-Directory-Traversal.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133964/ElasticSearch-Snapshot-API-Directory-Traversal.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 75935 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133797/ElasticSearch-Path-Traversal-Arbitrary-File-Download.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.elastic.co/community/security/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 38383 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_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-2022-4392 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-jjq8-vfjq-j6v4 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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