CVE-2017-8446 describes an impersonation vulnerability in the Reporting feature of X-Pack (versions prior to 5.5.2) and the standalone Reporting plugin (versions prior to 2.4.6) for Elasticsearch. A user with the "reporting_user" role could execute reports with the privileges of another reporting user, potentially leading to unauthorized access to sensitive data. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.3) has a low attack complexity and requires no user interaction, but its impact is limited to confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 5.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:elasticsearch:x-pack:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 2.4.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:elasticsearch:x-pack_reporting:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
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