A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in X-Pack 5.1.1. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part of the component Search. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

X-Pack 5.1.1 did not properly apply document and field level security to multi-search and multi-get requests so users without access to a document and/or field may have been able to access this information.

The bug was discovered 01/23/2017. The weakness was disclosed 06/16/2017 (Website). The advisory is shared at elastic.co. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2017-8450 since 05/02/2017. The attack can be launched remotely. A single authentication is necessary for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 144 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The entries 75175, 102624, 102623 and 102625 are pretty similar.

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