CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-8438

8.8 HIGH Published 2017-06-05 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-06-05
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-269, CWE-284

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.

Affected configurations

• elastic x-pack 5.0.0 • elastic x-pack 5.0.1 • elastic x-pack 5.0.2 • elastic x-pack 5.1.0 • elastic x-pack 5.1.1 • elastic x-pack 5.2.0 • elastic x-pack 5.2.1 • elastic x-pack 5.2.2 • elastic x-pack 5.3.0 • elastic x-pack 5.3.1 • elastic x-pack 5.3.2 • elastic x-pack 5.3.3 • elastic x-pack 5.4.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
  • CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness

References