CVE-2017-8446

First published: Fri Aug 18 2017(Updated: )

The Reporting feature in X-Pack in versions prior to 5.5.2 and standalone Reporting plugin versions versions prior to 2.4.6 had an impersonation vulnerability. A user with the reporting_user role could execute a report with the permissions of another reporting user, possibly gaining access to sensitive data.

Credit: bressers@elastic.co

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• collector/nvd-index
• agent/references
• agent/severity
• agent/author
• agent/tags
• agent/weakness
• agent/type
• agent/event
• agent/description
• agent/last-modified-date
• agent/softwarecombine
• agent/first-publish-date
• collector/mitre-cve
• source/MITRE
• vendor/elasticsearch
• canonical/elasticsearch x-pack
• version/elasticsearch x-pack/5.5.1
• canonical/elasticsearch x-pack reporting
• version/elasticsearch x-pack reporting/2.4.5