Cherry-pick for release 6.18.1#5591
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The authorization and message-action audit documents omitted the
ecs.version field. ECS-consuming pipelines (Elasticsearch's built-in
logs-*-* index template, Elastic Security, other SIEMs) use ecs.version
to select the matching field mappings, so a conformant document should
declare it. Both streams now emit "ecs": { "version": "8.11.0" } — the
latest ECS schema release, whose event.category/type/outcome and user.*
fields are what these documents already use.
Additive, non-breaking output change. First shipped in 6.18.0 without the
field, so this targets the next patch (6.18.1) or minor (6.19.0).
ECS version field: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/ecs/current/ecs-ecs.html
event.type allowed values (allowed/denied/change/deletion):
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/ecs/current/ecs-allowed-values-event-type.html
ECS releases: https://github.com/elastic/ecs/releases
Add user.roles to the authorization audit log Emit the roles the principal held as the ECS user.roles array on each authorization decision, so SIEMs can facet and alert on roles instead of parsing them out of the free-text reason. Omitted when the principal has no roles.
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