CVE-2015-4165 SUSE CVE security@suse.de SUSE Security Team SUSE CVE-2015-4165 Interim 1 4 2025-04-23T23:29:58Z current 2021-05-30T13:30:29Z 2025-04-23T23:29:58Z cve-database/bin/generate-cvrf-cve.pl 2020-12-27T01:00:00Z CVE-2015-4165 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. The CVRF data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0). https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/ SUSE Security Ratings 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. CVE-2015-4165 important 6 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H