CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-1427

Published: Feb 17, 2015 | Modified: Apr 22, 2026
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
6.8 IMPORTANT
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V3
6.5 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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The Groovy scripting engine in Elasticsearch before 1.3.8 and 1.4.x before 1.4.3 allows remote attackers to bypass the sandbox protection mechanism and execute arbitrary shell commands via a crafted script.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
ElasticsearchElastic*1.3.8 (excluding)
ElasticsearchElastic1.4.0 (including)1.4.3 (excluding)
Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.3RedHat*
Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.3RedHat*
ElasticsearchUbuntuartful*
ElasticsearchUbuntuupstream*
ElasticsearchUbuntuvivid*
ElasticsearchUbuntuwily*
ElasticsearchUbuntuyakkety*
ElasticsearchUbuntuzesty*

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