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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.