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CVE-2017-8438

Published: Jun 5, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Elastic	X-Pack Security	affected `5.0.0 to 5.4.0`

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-5-4-1-and-5-3-3-security-updates/87952

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https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-5-4-1-and-5-3-3-released

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

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