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FKIE_CVE-2017-8441

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-06-05 14:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:26

Severity

4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Summary

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.

References

URL	Tags
security@elastic.co	https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-5-4-1-and-5-3-3-security-updates/87952	Vendor Advisory
security@elastic.co	https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-5-4-1-and-5-3-3-released	Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
security@elastic.co	https://www.elastic.co/community/security	Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-5-4-1-and-5-3-3-security-updates/87952	Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-5-4-1-and-5-3-3-released	Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.elastic.co/community/security	Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	elastic	x-pack	*
	elastic	x-pack	*

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CVE-2017-8441 (GCVE-0-2017-8441)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-06-05 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 16:34

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-279 - Incorrect Execution-Assigned Permissions

Assigner

elastic mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-5-4-1-…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-5-4-1-a…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://www.elastic.co/community/security	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Elastic	X-Pack Security	Affected: prior to 5.4.1 and 5.3.3

Date Public

2017-06-01 00:00

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