CVE-2015-1427 is a critical vulnerability affecting Elasticsearch versions before 1.3.8 and 1.4.3, as well as related products from Elastic and Red Hat. It allows remote attackers to bypass the Groovy scripting engine's sandbox and execute arbitrary shell commands. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network without authentication or user interaction, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. It is actively exploited in the wild, with public exploit modules available in Metasploit and Nuclei, and has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, including its use by botnets and ransomware.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.3.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 1.4.0, < 1.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:fuse:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.