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CVE-2017-8446

18
FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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 Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.69%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
49.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0069 is in the 31st percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.elasticsearch.plugin:x-packFixed in: 5.5.2

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-m728-qvxh-xfjqmedium

Improper Privilege Management in X-Pack

May 13, 2022

References

elastic.co / community/security
Vendor Advisory