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CVE-2017-8448

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-8448 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in Elastic X-Pack Alerting versions 5.0.0 to 5.6.0. An attacker with certain built-in role permissions could craft a watch to gain elevated privileges. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a network-exploitable flaw with low attack complexity and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. 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
5.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:x-pack:5.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:x-pack:5.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:x-pack:5.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:x-pack:5.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:x-pack:5.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.84%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
54.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0084 is in the 49th percentile among its peer group of 17,808 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

discuss.elastic.co / t/x-pack-alerting-and-kibana-5-6-1-security-update/101884
MitigationVendor Advisory