Search Guard v17

Release Date: December 19, 2017

Fixes

  • Fix “Unable to Install Demo Configuration on Elasticsearch Docker Image”
  • Fix demo installer when X-Pack is installed
  • Fix demo installer to work with various Linux distributions and Elastic official docker containers
  • Fix “Hiding class loading exceptions”
  • Fix principal extractor usage
  • Fix NullPointer in sgadmin diagnose trace
  • Fix Cross Cluster Search local index handling (SG-681)
  • Cross Cluster Search now also works with Kerberos authentication
  • Fix “Not all auth domains are evaluated for TransportRequests” (SG-951)
  • If the first authentication domain on transport level failed to authenticate, the following ones were not executed sometimes
  • It is no longer necessary to add the DN of the TLS certificate used for Transport clients to the internal user database
  • Added indices:data/read/scroll* cluster permission for Kibana user roles
  • Changed ?kibana permissions from READ to INDICES_ALL for X-Pack user roles

Enhancements

  • Make scroll requests more secure
    • If the user in the original request and following requests differ, a security exception is raised
  • Additional permissions for inner bulk request (BREAKING)
    • For inner bulk request, it’s no longer sufficient to grant the indices:data/write/bulk[s] permission on index level
    • In addition, the user needs to have indices:data/write/index, indices:data/write/delete and/or indices:data/write/update permissions on index level explicitely

Features