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 d…

published 2017-06-16 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-17400

cvss: 7.5; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.9%; EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 58%
public exploits: 0; none known

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.

Exploit prediction

0.86% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 58% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	7.5	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD	2.0	4.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

Elastic Elastic X-Pack Security

Classification

Weakness

CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

elastic.co /community/security
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2017-8450
NVD CVE-2017-8450

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

Summary