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FKIE_CVE-2017-8448

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-09-29 01:34 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:26

Severity

8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

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

	URL	Tags
	security@elastic.co	https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-alerting-and-kibana-5-6-1-security-update/101884	Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-alerting-and-kibana-5-6-1-security-update/101884	Mitigation, Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
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
elastic	x-pack	5.3.2
elastic	x-pack	5.3.3
elastic	x-pack	5.4.0
elastic	x-pack	5.5.0
elastic	x-pack	5.5.2
elastic	x-pack	5.6.0

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CVE-2017-8448 (GCVE-0-2017-8448)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-09-28 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 16:34

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-284 - Improper Access Control

Assigner

elastic mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-alerting-and-…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Elastic	Elastic X-Pack Alerting	Affected: 5.0.0 to 5.6.0

Date Public

2017-09-28 00:00

Show details on NVD website

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