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SCA: security update for org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (GHSA-w94p-6mhw-4qxw)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 419827

Description

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

 - 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.
 (CVE-2015-1427)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w94p-6mhw-4qxw

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 419827

Version: Revision 1.7

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: High

Score: 7.9

Percentile: 99.37

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-1427

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/11/2015

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 4/15/2022

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (ElasticSearch Search Groovy Sandbox Bypass)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1427

BID: 72585

cwe: CWE-284