Elasticsearch vulnerabilities1 known to be exploited.

Vendor1 known exploited
The short answer

Elasticsearch has 15 published vulnerabilities across 10 products in our catalogue. 1 of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited, so criminals are using them now. The most affected product is Elasticsearch, with 5. If you run Elasticsearch software, patch the exploited flaws first.

See the exploited flaws

The most recent Elasticsearch flaw added to the known-exploited list is CVE-2014-3120, on 25 March 2022. We keep watching the known-exploited list.

Products

Which Elasticsearch products have the most vulnerabilities?

Elasticsearch leads with 5 published vulnerabilities. Open a product to see its versions and which of its flaws criminals are already using.

Known exploited

Which Elasticsearch vulnerabilities are being exploited?

1 flaw is on the government list of vulnerabilities known to be exploited. These are the ones criminals are using now, so they go first, whatever their severity score says.

  1. 8.1
    CVE-2014-3120HighKnown exploited
    Elasticsearch Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

    Elasticsearch enables dynamic scripting, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary MVEL expressions and Java code.

    Chance of use89%Known exploited since25 Mar 2022
Exploit likelihood

Which Elasticsearch flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. 95%

    Directory traversal vulnerability in Elasticsearch before 1.6.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors related to snapshot API calls.

    CVSS5.0Published17 Aug 2015
  2. 89%
    CVE-2014-3120HighKnown exploited

    The default configuration in Elasticsearch before 1.2 enables dynamic scripting, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary MVEL expressions and Java code via the source parameter to _search.

    CVSS8.1Published28 Jul 2014
  3. 33%

    Directory traversal vulnerability in Elasticsearch before 1.4.5 and 1.5.x before 1.5.2, when a site plugin is enabled, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.

    CVSS4.3Published1 May 2015
  4. 4.5%

    The snapshot API in Elasticsearch before 1.6.0 when another application exists on the system that can read Lucene files and execute code from them, is accessible by the attacker, and the Java VM on which...

    CVSS7.5Published9 Aug 2017
  5. 2.5%

    Logstash 1.5.x before 1.5.3 and 1.4.x before 1.4.4 allows remote attackers to read communications between Logstash Forwarder agent and Logstash server.

    CVSS7.5Published27 Jun 2017
  6. 2.0%

    Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the CORS functionality in Elasticsearch before 1.4.0.Beta1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

    CVSS4.3Published10 Oct 2014
  7. 1.4%

    Packetbeat versions prior to 5.6.4 are affected by a denial of service flaw in the PostgreSQL protocol handler.

    CVSS7.5Published8 Dec 2017
  8. 1.2%

    In Kibana versions before 6.8.11 and 7.8.1 the region map visualization in contains a stored XSS flaw.

    CVSS6.7Published27 Jul 2020
  9. 1.2%

    Logstash 1.4.x before 1.4.5 and 1.5.x before 1.5.4 with Lumberjack output or the Logstash forwarder does not validate SSL/TLS certificates from the Logstash server, which might allow attackers to obtain sensitive...

    CVSS5.9Published9 Aug 2017
  10. 1.1%

    Prior to Logstash version 5.0.1, Elasticsearch Output plugin when updating connections after sniffing, would log to file HTTP basic auth credentials.

    CVSS6.5Published16 Jun 2017
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Our catalogue lists 15 published vulnerabilities across 10 products and 462 versions from Elasticsearch. The most recent Elasticsearch flaw added to the known-exploited list is CVE-2014-3120, on 25 March 2022.

1 Elasticsearch vulnerability is on the list of flaws known to be exploited. The most recently added is CVE-2014-3120. The full list is on this page.

Elasticsearch, with 5 published vulnerabilities. Its own page lists the ones known to be exploited.

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