GHSA-jjq8-vfjq-j6v4 · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: maven — Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory in Elasticsearch
Directory traversal vulnerability in Elasticsearch before 1.6.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors related to snapshot API calls.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2015-5531 is rated High Exploit Risk (70.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 92.03%, 100th percentile). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
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| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38383 | exploit_db | edb | 2015-10-02 | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-04-01 | 91.58% | 92.03% | +0.45% |
| 2 | 2025-10-24 | 91.32% | 91.58% | +0.26% |
| 3 | 2025-10-17 | — | 91.32% | — |
Full EPSS history (15 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.0 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
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10.0 | 2.9 | [email protected] |
GHSA-jjq8-vfjq-j6v4 · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: maven — Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory in Elasticsearch
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
redhat
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low | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5531 |
ubuntu
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low | CVE-2015-5531 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (elasticsearch), 11 status rows across 11 suites (artful, bionic, precise, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 5, DNE 4, not-affected 1, released 1. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5531 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| elasticsearch | elasticsearch | <= 1.6.0 | cpe:2.3:a:elasticsearch:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |