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SCA: security update for org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (GHSA-jjq8-vfjq-j6v4)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 416434

Description

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

 - Directory traversal vulnerability in Elasticsearch before 1.6.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary
 files via unspecified vectors related to snapshot API calls. (CVE-2015-5531)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jjq8-vfjq-j6v4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 416434

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: Low

Score: 3.9

Percentile: 52.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-5531

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/16/2015

Exploitable With

Elliot (Elasticsearch < 1.6.1 LFI)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5531

BID: 75935

cwe: CWE-22