Vulnerability CVE-2017-8448
Published: 2017-09-28   Modified: 2017-09-29

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.

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/x-pack-alerting-and-kibana-5-6-1-security-update/101884
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