CVE-2015-5531 (GCVE-0-2015-5531)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-08-17 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:50
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Summary
Directory traversal vulnerability in Elasticsearch before 1.6.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors related to snapshot API calls.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2015-07-16 00:00
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