Name: CVE-2015-1427: Undefined Security Weakness
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2015-02-17T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2015-1427, CWE-284, Exploited in the Wild, CISA KEV Exploit, Metasploit Module, CVSS 9.8, EPSS 0.99906, CISA KEV

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.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 9.8
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Elastic Elasticsearch	—	Upgrade Elastic Elasticsearch to the latest version	May 13, 2025	Feb 17, 2015
Freebsd	—	Upgrade elasticsearch	Dec 10, 2025	Jun 26, 2015

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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