Intrusion PreventionElasticsearch.Site.Plugin.Directory.Traversal
Description
This indicates an attack attempt against a Directory Traversal vulnerability in 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 execute or upload arbitrary files, or reveal the content of arbitrary files anywhere on the web server.
Affected Products
ElasticSearch 1.4.x before 1.4.5
ElasticSearch 1.5.x before 1.5.2
Impact
System Compromise: Remote attackers can gain control of vulnerable systems.
Recommended Actions
Apply the most recent upgrade or patch from the vendor.
https://www.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch
Telemetry
Coverage
| IPS (Regular DB) | |
| IPS (Extended DB) |
| ID | 44783 |
| Created | Nov 10, 2017 |
| Updated | Aug 29, 2018 |
| Risk |
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| CVE ID | CVE-2015-3337 |
| Exploit Prediction Score | 96.19% |
| Default Action | drop |
| Active | |
| Affected OS | All |
| Affected App | Other |