Intrusion PreventionElasticSearch.Snapshot.Directory.Traversal
Description
This indicates an attack attempt against a Directory Traversal vulnerability in Elastic ElasticSearch.
The vulnerability is due to insufficient sanitizing of user supplied inputs in the application while handling maliciously crafted requests. A remote attacker can exploit this to access arbitrary file on the targeted server, via a crafted request.
Affected Products
Elastic Elasticsearch prior to 1.6.1
Impact
Information Disclosure: Remote attackers can gain sensitive information from vulnerable systems.
Recommended Actions
Apply the most recent upgrade or patch from the vendor
https://www.elastic.co/community/security
Telemetry
Coverage
| IPS (Regular DB) | |
| IPS (Extended DB) |
| ID | 44550 |
| Created | Oct 03, 2017 |
| Updated | Oct 24, 2017 |
| Risk |
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| CVE ID | CVE-2015-5531 |
| Exploit Prediction Score | 97.14% |
| Default Action | drop |
| Active | |
| Affected OS | All |
| Affected App | Other |