CVE-2015-4165

mediumpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.044 · 91 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

4.45% (91st) EPSS

CVSS 6 · medium

Is it mine?

3 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6–7.5

v2.06mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 6.8 · impact 6.4

v3.07.5highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.6 · impact 5.9

v3.07.5highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.06.9mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-264USprimaryCWE-284US

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
elasticsearch elasticsearch= 1.5.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:elasticsearch:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch< 1.6.0osvUSpkg:maven/org.elasticsearch/elasticsearch

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-fh5x-4j57-6q5xImproper Access Control in Elasticsearch2022-05-14ghsa · osvUS
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.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2017-08-09modified 2026-06-17

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references (19)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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