CVE-2017-8446

medium

Published 2017-08-18 · Modified 2023-11-08

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CVSS v3

5.3

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.3

Description

Improper Privilege Management in X-Pack

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

63%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
Maven	org.elasticsearch.plugin:x-pack	`<5.5.2`	`5.5.2`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
elasticsearch	x-pack	`{"endIncluding":"5.5.1"}`
elasticsearch	x-pack_reporting	`{"endIncluding":"2.4.5"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-522 CWE-269

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.