CVE-2017-8448

high
Published 2017-09-29 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
VIR risk
8.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
elasticx-pack5.0.0
elasticx-pack5.0.1
elasticx-pack5.0.2
elasticx-pack5.1.1
elasticx-pack5.2.0
elasticx-pack5.2.1
elasticx-pack5.2.2
elasticx-pack5.3.0
elasticx-pack5.3.1
elasticx-pack5.3.2
elasticx-pack5.3.3
elasticx-pack5.4.0
elasticx-pack5.5.0
elasticx-pack5.5.2
elasticx-pack5.6.0

References

CWEs

CWE-284 CWE-269

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

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