UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4165

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Source

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4165

Import Source

https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2015/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4165.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4165

Upstream

CVE-2015-4165

Withdrawn

2025-07-18T16:43:13Z

Published

2017-08-09T16:29:00Z

Modified

2025-07-16T07:33:00.033051Z

Severity

7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Ubuntu - medium

Summary

[none]

Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / elasticsearch

Package

Name: elasticsearch
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/elasticsearch@1.7.3+dfsg-3?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.7.3+dfsg-3

Affected versions

1.*

1.6.2+dfsg-1

1.7.3+dfsg-1

1.7.3+dfsg-2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "elasticsearch",
            "binary_version": "1.7.3+dfsg-3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libelasticsearch1.7-java",
            "binary_version": "1.7.3+dfsg-3"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2015/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4165.json"