CVE-2017-8438 - CVE House

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Status published High CVE-2017-8438

Elastic X-Pack Security versions 5.0.0 to 5.4.0 contain a privilege...

8.8 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

Elastic X-Pack Security versions 5.0.0 to 5.4.0 contain a privilege escalation bug in the run_as functionality. This bug prevents transitioning into the specified user specified in a run_as request. If a role has been created using a template that contains the _user properties, the behavior of run_as will be incorrect. Additionally if the run_as user specified does not exist, the transition will not happen.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Elastic

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Affected Software

X-Pack Security

Vulnerable Versions:

5.0.0 to 5.4.0

Timeline

Official Publish: June 5th, 2017

Last Modified: August 5th, 2024

Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation

Privilege Escalation

T1078 Valid Accounts

T1213 Data from Information Repositories

T1565.002 Stored Data Manipulation