CVE-2015-1427

CRITICAL9.8

CISA KEV

Published 2015-02-17 · Updated 2026-06-17 · Source cve@mitre.org

Summary

CVE-2015-1427 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on March 25, 2022, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by April 15, 2022. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. Elastic has 3 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 0 of them linked to ransomware.

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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.

CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability

Product: Elastic — Elasticsearch

Name: Elasticsearch Groovy Scripting Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Date added: 2022-03-25 · Due: 2022-04-15

Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

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