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CVE-2015-1427(elastic / elasticsearch)

LOWCVSS 9.8 · CRITICALCISA KEV

Signal is active with 1 mentions in latest observed window

Immediate actions

  • Track advisory updates for patch or workaround availability

Recommended action window: Monitor and triage in normal cycle

NVD description

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.

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0.5/ 10 priority

Sources & remediation

Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Federal remediation due date: 2022-04-15. Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Patch / fix
Exploit / PoC references
Vendor / third-party advisories
Other references

Priority

LOW

Exploitation

ACTIVE

PoC

YES

Patch

AVAILABLE

Momentum

NONE

Are you affected?

If you run products in this scope, you should treat this CVE as relevant to your environment.

  • elasticsearch
  • fuse

Threat summary

  • 1 mentions across 1 observed day

What's happening

  • 1 total mentions across 1 day

Affected systems

Vendors
elasticredhat
Products
elasticsearchfuse

1 version affected across 2 products

Deep dive

Activity timeline1 mentions / 1d
00111Mentions · 2026-10-15: 110-15
Referenced assets1 URL
Full discourse1 post
  • NewNormal Security@NewScanTeam

    NewNormal Security turns CVEs since the previous batch into new detections, every day. 𝗗𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗖𝗩𝗘 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 — 15 Oct 2026 𝗔𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗱 to NewScan 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: 📦 Search server on a build with known RCE — a config-API call turns a document update into command execution (Apache Solr CVE-2017-12629, CVE-2019-17558) 📦 Legacy Elasticsearch 1.x — a scripted search runs code on the node, or a crafted plugin/snapshot path reads any file off its disk (Elastic Elasticsearch CVE-2014-3120, CVE-2015-1427, CVE-2015-3337, CVE-2015-5531) 📦 Unpatched CouchDB — an anonymous document promotes itself to database administrator, then runs OS commands (Apache CouchDB CVE-2017-12635, CVE-2017-12636, CVE-2022-24706) Test your stack with NewScan — free, self-hosted: https://newnormalsecurity.com/newscan?utm_source=x&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=daily-cve #infosec #AppSec #RCE #CSO #REDTEAM

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CPE platform detail2 entries

2 of 2 entries

PartVendorProductVersionTarget SWTarget HW
Appelasticelasticsearch---
Appredhatfuse1.0.0--

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