CVE-2017-8449 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

X-Pack Security 5.2.x would allow access to more fields than the user should have seen if the field level security rules used a mix of grant and exclude rules when merging multiple rules with field level security rules for the same index.

Published: 2017-06-16

Score: 5.9 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Elastic

Elastic X-Pack Security

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`before 5.3.0`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:elastic:x-pack:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2017-17399	X-Pack Security 5.2.x would allow access to more fields than the user should have seen if the field level security rules used a mix of grant and exclude rules when merging multiple rules with field level security rules for the same index.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00262.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://www.elastic.co/community/security

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Elastic X-pack

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: elastic

Published: 2017-06-16T21:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T16:34:23.089Z

Reserved: 2017-05-02T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-8449

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-06-16T21:29:00.603

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-8449

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

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