[Security Solution] Error is displayed after importing rules with Elastic-cloud-SMTP connector

[vgomez-el]

Describe the bug:

• Error is displayed after importing rules with Elastic-cloud-SMTP connector

Kibana/Elasticsearch Stack version:

• 8.8.0-BC2

Original install method (e.g. download page, yum, from source, etc.):

• Cloud instance

Functional Area (e.g. Endpoint management, timelines, resolver, etc.):

Detection Rules

Initial setup

• user has more than one rule with at least one Rule action with Elastic-cloud-SMTP connector each
• User is on Rules Management page

Steps to reproduce:

1. Export a Rule which has an Elastic-cloud-SMTP connector
2. Click on "Import Rules" button
3. Select the previous exported file
4. Check all the 3 checkboxes
5. Press Import button

Steps to reproduce locally (dev environment):

1. Preconfigure a connector locally in kibana.dev.yml/kibana.yml as described here.
2. Create a rule with an action using a preconfigured connector.
3. Export the rule with connector
4. Click on "Import Rules" button
5. Select the previous exported file
6. Check all the 3 checkboxes
7. Press Import button

Current behavior:

• An error message is displayed checking the 3 options when importing, but the error does not appear when leaving uncheck the " Overwrite existing connectors with conflicting action "id"".

Expected behavior:

-File should be imported successfully and connectors should be overwritten if necessary

Screen recording

REC-20230510131242.mp4

Errors in browser console (if relevant):

Provide logs and/or server output (if relevant):

Any additional context (logs, chat logs, magical formulas, etc.):

Error message displayed:

{
  "name": "Network errors",
  "raw_network_error": {
    "success": false,
    "success_count": 0,
    "rules_count": 1,
    "errors": [
      {
        "id": "elastic-cloud-email",
        "rule_id": "86f36b3b-4991-4090-aa4b-0f46569b1864",
        "error": {
          "status_code": 404,
          "message": "1 connector is missing. Connector id missing is: elastic-cloud-email"
        }
      }
    ],
    "exceptions_errors": [],
    "exceptions_success": true,
    "exceptions_success_count": 0,
    "action_connectors_success": false,
    "action_connectors_success_count": 0,
    "action_connectors_errors": [
      {
        "id": "elastic-cloud-email",
        "rule_id": "86f36b3b-4991-4090-aa4b-0f46569b1864",
        "error": {
          "status_code": 404,
          "message": "1 connector is missing. Connector id missing is: elastic-cloud-email"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "message": "1 connector is missing. Connector id missing is: elastic-cloud-email"
}

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/security-detections-response (Team:Detections and Resp)

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/security-solution (Team: SecuritySolution)

[vgomez-el]

The error message is displayed only when checking the 3 options when importing, it does not happen when user just checks, the first one or the first and the second

REC-20230510132024.mp4

[maximpn]

@vgomez-el Could you please validate the #176284? It has been backported to 8.12 and will be released in 8.12.2.

[vgomez-el]

Bug is fixed and validated for 8.13 BC1:

REC-20240221112717.mp4

thanks @maximpn and @banderror for your fix!