CVE-2015-5531

mediumpriority · attend · 63EPSS 0.948 · 100 %ileexploit · functionalDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

4 exploits · functional

Likely / severe?

94.8% (100th) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

8 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Directory traversal vulnerability in Elasticsearch before 1.6.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors related to snapshot API calls.

cvss

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

5.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-22USprimaryCWE-22US

exploits (4)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

auxiliary/scanner/http/elasticsearch_traversalElasticSearch Snapshot API Directory Traversalfunctional · metasploit
EDB-38383ElasticSearch 1.6.0 - Arbitrary File DownloadPoC · exploit_db
MoCh3n/CVE-2015-5531-POCMoCh3n/CVE-2015-5531-POCPoC · poc_in_github
xpgdgit/CVE-2015-5531xpgdgit/CVE-2015-5531PoC · poc_in_github

affected products (8)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Juniper Junos Space Security Director <24.1R4all versionscert_bundDE
Open Source Elasticsearch 1.7all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:elasticsearch:elasticsearch:1.7
Open Source Elasticsearch <1.6.1all versionscert_bundDE
Juniper Junos Space≤ Security Director <24.1R4cert_bundDE
Open Source Elasticsearch< 1.6.1cert_bundDE
n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
elasticsearch elasticsearch≤ 1.6.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:elasticsearch:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch< 1.6.1osvUSpkg:maven/org.elasticsearch/elasticsearch

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2025-2234Elasticsearch: Mehrere Schwachstellen ermöglichen Codeausführung und die Offenlegung von InformationenDeutsch2015-07-16csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Elasticsearch ausnutzen, um beliebigen Programmcode auszuführen und Informationen offenzulegen.
GHSA-jjq8-vfjq-j6v4Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory in Elasticsearch2022-05-14ghsa · osvUS
Directory traversal vulnerability in Elasticsearch before 1.6.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors related to snapshot API calls.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2015-08-17modified 2026-06-17

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references (18)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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