Elasticsearch Sandbox Escape Command Execution (CVE-2015-1427)

A remote command execution RCE vulnerability exists in the Groovy scripting engine in Elasticsearch. The vulnerability is due to certain scripts bypassing the sandbox protection mechanism. A remote attacker can exploit this weakness to execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted request...

CVE-2015-1427

CVE-2015-1427 concerns Elasticsearch’s Groovy scripting engine, where dynamic scripting was enabled by default in versions before 1.3.8 (and 1.4.x before 1.4.3). The root cause is a sandbox bypass in the Groovy sandbox that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands via a crafted...