CVE-2017-8448

HIGH

Elastic X-Pack Alerting 5.0.0-5.6.0 - Improper Privilege Management via Watch Creation

Title source: llm

Description

An error was found in the permission model used by X-Pack Alerting 5.0.0 to 5.6.0 whereby users mapped to certain built-in roles could create a watch that results in that user gaining elevated privileges.

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

Mitigation, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-alerting-and-kibana-5-6-1-security-update/101884

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8

EPSS 0.0031

EPSS Percentile 54.1%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-269 CWE-284

Status published

Products (16)

Elastic/Elastic X-Pack Alerting 5.0.0 to 5.6.0

elastic/x-pack 5.0.0

elastic/x-pack 5.0.1

elastic/x-pack 5.0.2

elastic/x-pack 5.1.1

elastic/x-pack 5.2.0

elastic/x-pack 5.2.1

elastic/x-pack 5.2.2

elastic/x-pack 5.3.0

elastic/x-pack 5.3.1

... and 6 more

Published Sep 29, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026