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CVE-2017-8448

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-09-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-284

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.

Affected products

• Elastic X-Pack Security: 5.0.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.1.1, 5.2.0, 5.2.1 (+9)

References

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

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