An error was found in the X-Pack Security TLS trust manager for versions 5.0.0 to 5.5.1.

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• elastic x-pack5.0.0 and later · up to 5.5.1 inclusive

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (elastic). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• Elastic Elastic X-Pack Security

  • 5.0.0 to 5.5.1affected

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2018-3822X-Pack Security versions 6.2.0, 6.2.1, and 6.2.2 are vulnerable to a user impersonation attack via incorrect XML canonicalization and DOM tr
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• CVE-2017-8448An 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 creat
  35Monitor
• CVE-2017-8438Elastic X-Pack Security versions 5.0.0 to 5.4.0 contain a privilege escalation bug in the run_as functionality.
  35Monitor
• CVE-2017-8450X-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 do
  30Monitor
• CVE-2017-8447An error was found in the X-Pack Security 5.3.0 to 5.5.2 privilege enforcement.
  26Monitor
• CVE-2017-8442Elasticsearch X-Pack Security versions 5.0.0 to 5.4.3, when enabled, can result in the Elasticsearch _nodes API leaking sensitive configurat
  26Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

A certificate validation error is silently swallowed instead of terminating the connection. Often, code added for a test environment makes its way into production.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1override fun checkServerTrusted(chain: Array<X509Certificate>, type: String) {2  // Left empty for the test environment3}

1val client = OkHttpClient.Builder()2  .certificatePinner(3    CertificatePinner.Builder()4      .add("api.sirius.example", "sha256/…")5      .build()6  ).build()

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.