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CVE-2015-5531

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 94.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2015-08-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

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.

Affected products

• Elasticsearch: through 1.6.0

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132721/Elasticsearch-Directory-Traversal.html
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133797/ElasticSearch-Path-Traversal-Arbitrary-File-Download.html
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133964/ElasticSearch-Snapshot-API-Directory-Traversal.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/536017/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75935
• https://www.elastic.co/community/security/
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38383/
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132721/Elasticsearch-Directory-Traversal.html
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133797/ElasticSearch-Path-Traversal-Arbitrary-File-Download.html
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133964/ElasticSearch-Snapshot-API-Directory-Traversal.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/536017/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75935

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