{"id":"CVE-2017-8448","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-8448","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T20:08:08.066Z","title":"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.","description":"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.","published":"2017-09-29T01:34:51.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:26:23.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security@elastic.co","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":8.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-284","CWE-269"],"affected":["elastic/x-pack"],"epss":{"score":0.00851,"percentile":0.58028,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.85%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-alerting-and-kibana-5-6-1-security-update/101884","tags":["Mitigation","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security@elastic.co"},{"url":"https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-alerting-and-kibana-5-6-1-security-update/101884","tags":["Mitigation","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8448","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}