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SCA: security update for org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (GHSA-fh5x-4j57-6q5x)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 414521

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2015-4165)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fh5x-4j57-6q5x

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 414521

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-4165

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/27/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-4165

BID: 75113

cwe: CWE-284