Medium severity · published Sep 29, 2017
CVE-2017-8447
An error was found in the X-Pack Security 5.3.0 to 5.5.2 privilege enforcement
6.5
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An error was found in the X-Pack Security 5.3.0 to 5.5.2 privilege enforcement. If a user has either 'delete' or 'index' permissions on an index in a cluster, they may be able to issue both delete and index requests against that index.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 49% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
XP
X-pack · Elastic
5.3.0; 5.3.1; 5.3.2; 5.3.3; 5.4.0; 5.5.0; +1 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8447
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8447
Mitigation
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-security-5-6-0-and-5-5-3-security-update/100089
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