Elasticsearch wrote a blog post regarding the issue today:
http://www.elasticsearch.org/blog/scripting-security/

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On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 2:39 AM, Umutcan <[email protected]> wrote:

>  You are right. We were aware that exposing cluster to internet was a bad
> idea. It was a temporary situation. We are planing to use it behind an
> application in our product.
>
> Thanks for advice.
>
>
> On 09-07-2014 12:01, David Pilato wrote:
>
> 3 bad things here:
>
>  * You exposed your cluster to internet directly
> * You did not disable dynamic scripting
> * May be you are running your elasticsearch node as root?
>
>  You should read that documentation:
> http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/0.90/modules-scripting.html#_disabling_dynamic_scripts
>
>
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> Le 9 juillet 2014 à 10:45:30, Umutcan ([email protected]) a écrit:
>
>  Hi,
>
> We have been testing Elasticsearch for a while. Our ES cluster was on
> AWS. We installed Bigdesk, Marvel, Thrift, EC2 Discovery plugins. There
> were 5 instance (1 load balancer, 4 data node) and all of them were
> version 0.90.
>
> Yesterday, We have received an e-mail from AWS. They said one of our
> instance in ES cluster was making DOS attacks from UDP port 80.
>
> We did not restrict ports, because it was an test cluster. It can be
> main cause of this problem, but I still want to ask if there is a known
> bug (in ES or modules or plugins) that cause something like this or if
> there is anyone who have seen some kind of similar problem.
>
> Thanks,
> Umutcan Onal
>
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