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.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2017-08-09T16:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-06T06:04:02.911Z
Reserved: 2015-06-02T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2015-4165
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2017-08-09T16:29:00.253
Modified: 2018-10-09T19:57:07.890
Link: CVE-2015-4165
Redhat