Elasticsearch Head plugin LFI

Sooraj V Nair

Published on

01 Oct 2021

Vulnerability

When a site plugin is activated, a directory traversal issue in Elasticsearch before 1.4.5 and 1.5.x before 1.5.2 allows remote attackers to access arbitrary files via undefined vectors.

Mitigation / Precaution

In order to patch this vulnerability, we suggest you update Elasticsearch to the latest version

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