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Debian DSA-3241-1 : elasticsearch - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 83147

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

John Heasman discovered that the site plugin handling of the Elasticsearch search engine was susceptible to directory traversal.

Solution

Upgrade the elasticsearch packages.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.3+dfsg-5+deb8u1.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/elasticsearch

https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3241

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 83147

File Name: debian_DSA-3241.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/30/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:elasticsearch, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/29/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3337

BID: 74353

DSA: 3241