{"document":{"aggregate_severity":{"namespace":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/","text":"important"},"category":"csaf_vex","csaf_version":"2.0","distribution":{"text":"Copyright 2024 SUSE LLC. All rights reserved.","tlp":{"label":"WHITE","url":"https://www.first.org/tlp/"}},"lang":"en","notes":[{"category":"summary","text":"SUSE CVE-2017-8438","title":"Title"},{"category":"description","text":"Elastic X-Pack Security versions 5.0.0 to 5.4.0 contain a privilege escalation bug in the run_as functionality. This bug prevents transitioning into the specified user specified in a run_as request. If a role has been created using a template that contains the _user properties, the behavior of run_as will be incorrect. Additionally if the run_as user specified does not exist, the transition will not happen.","title":"Description of the CVE"},{"category":"legal_disclaimer","text":"CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).","title":"Terms of use"}],"publisher":{"category":"vendor","contact_details":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/contact/","name":"SUSE Product Security Team","namespace":"https://www.suse.com/"},"references":[{"category":"external","summary":"CVE-2017-8438","url":"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-8438"},{"category":"external","summary":"SUSE Security Ratings","url":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/"},{"category":"external","summary":"SUSE Bug 1075545 for CVE-2017-8438","url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1075545"}],"title":"SUSE CVE CVE-2017-8438","tracking":{"current_release_date":"2025-04-21T23:30:39Z","generator":{"date":"2023-02-15T04:45:55Z","engine":{"name":"cve-database.git:bin/generate-csaf-vex.pl","version":"1"}},"id":"CVE-2017-8438","initial_release_date":"2023-02-15T04:45:55Z","revision_history":[{"date":"2023-02-15T04:45:55Z","number":"2","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2025-01-01T08:56:19Z","number":"3","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2025-02-18T07:46:50Z","number":"4","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2025-04-21T23:30:39Z","number":"5","summary":"Current version"}],"status":"interim","version":"5"}}}