CVE-2017-8438

Elastic X-Pack Security (Elasticsearch X-Pack Security) versions 5.0.0–5.4.0 contain a privilege escalation vulnerability in the run_as functionality. The bug prevents transitioning to the specified user in a run_as request, and can misbehave if a role template includes the _user properties or if...

CVE-2017-8438: Improper Access Control

Elastic X-Pack Security versions 5.0.0 to 5.4.0 contain a privilege escalation bug in the runas functionality. This bug prevents transitioning into the specified user specified in a runas request. If a role has been created using a template that contains the user properties, the behavior of runas...

CVE-2017-8441: Incorrect Execution-Assigned Permissions

Elastic X-Pack Security versions prior to 5.4.1 and 5.3.3 did not always correctly apply Document Level Security to index aliases. This bug could allow a user with restricted permissions to view data they should not have access to when performing certain operations against an index alias...

PT-2017-18330

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Elastic X-Pack Security versions 5.0.0 to 5.4.0 Description The issue is related to a privilege escalation bug in the run as functionality. This bug affects the transitioning into a specified user in a run as request. If a role has been create...

PT-2017-18333

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Elastic X-Pack Security versions prior to 5.4.1 Elastic X-Pack Security versions prior to 5.3.3 Description The issue concerns the incorrect application of Document Level Security to index aliases, potentially allowing users with restricted...

Kibana 5.0.2 released with a fix for improper authentication

With X-Pack installed, operations in the Advanced Settings panel of the Management tab and operations from the short URL service were performed as the "Kibana Server" user regardless of the user that is currently authenticated. As a result, a user that was defined as read-only could make changes ...

Logstash 5.0.1 released with a security patch

Hi all, we would like to announce that Logstash 5.0.1 has been released with an important security patch. Prior to Logstash version 5.0.1, Elasticsearch Output plugin when updating connections after sniffing, would log to file HTTP basic auth credentials. We advise our users using Logstash and...

Elastic Kibana/X-Pack Detection (HTTP)

HTTP based detection of Elastic Kibana and X-Pack. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...