CVE-2017-8448 Privilege escalation in Elastic X-Pack Alerting

What is CVE-2017-8448?

CVE-2017-8448 is a high-severity vulnerability in Elastic X-Pack Alerting, published on 28 Sep 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-269, CWE-284

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-8448?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Elastic X-Pack.

How do I fix CVE-2017-8448?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-8448 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2017-8448 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-8448 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Elastic X-Pack Alerting

• CVE-2018-3822 Auth bypass in X-Pack Security Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-8438 Privilege escalation in X-Pack Security High 8.8
• CVE-2017-8450 Missing authorization in Elastic X-Pack Security High 7.5
• CVE-2017-8447 Privilege escalation in Elastic X-Pack Security Medium 6.5
• CVE-2017-8442 Information disclosure in Elasticsearch X-Pack Security Medium 6.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-frvx-m4v3-94v5.