CVE-2017-8448: Elastic X-Pack

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An error was found in the permission model used by X-Pack Alerting 5.0.0 to 5.6.0 whereby users mapped to certain built-in roles could create a watch that results in that user gaining elevated privileges.

Affected products

• Elastic X-Pack: version 5.0.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.0.2 only; version 5.1.1 only; version 5.2.0 only; version 5.2.1 only; …

Published 2017-09-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.