Detections
Analytics
CVE-2014-3120
medium
Description
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. NOTE: this only violates the vendor's intended security policy if the user does not run Elasticsearch in its own independent virtual machine.
From the Tenable Blog
Patched Elasticsearch Vulnerabilities Used to Spread Cryptocurrency Miner (CVE-2014-3120, CVE-2015-1427)
Published: 2018-12-13
Attackers are actively scanning for vulnerable Elasticsearch systems in order to implant cryptocurrency mining scripts.
References
https://www.elastic.co/community/security/