An error was found in the X-Pack Security 5.3.0 to 5.5.2 privilege enforcement.

Published 9 y ago 2017-09-28 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

6.5

v3.0 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

0.6%

percentile 50%

Public exploits

none known

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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.61% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 50% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.0	6.5	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N`
NVD	2.0	5.5	`AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P`

Affected products

Elastic Elastic X-Pack Security

Classification

Weakness

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

References

discuss.elastic.co /t/x-pack-security-5-6-0-and-5-5-3-security-update/100089 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2017-8447
NVD: CVE-2017-8447

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