Vulnerability CVE-2017-8438
Published: 2017-06-05

Description:
Elastic X-Pack Security versions 5.0.0 to 5.4.0 contain a privilege escalation bug in the run_as functionality. This bug prevents transitioning into the specified user specified in a run_as request. If a role has been created using a template that contains the _user properties, the behavior of run_as will be incorrect. Additionally if the run_as user specified does not exist, the transition will not happen.

Type:

CWE-269

 (Improper Privilege Management)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.5/10
6.4/10
8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Elastic -> X-pack 

 References:
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-5-4-1-and-5-3-3-security-updates/87952
https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-5-4-1-and-5-3-3-released
https://www.elastic.co/community/security
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