[SIEM] Fixes a bug where invalid regular expressions within the index patterns can cause UI toaster errors

x-pack/plugins/security_solution/server/utils/beat_schema/index.test.ts

@@ -401,10 +401,17 @@ describe('Schema Beat', () => {
       const result = getIndexAlias([leadingWildcardIndex], leadingWildcardIndex);
       expect(result).toBe(leadingWildcardIndex);
     });
+
     test('getIndexAlias no match returns "unknown" string', () => {
       const index = 'auditbeat-*';
       const result = getIndexAlias([index], 'hello');
       expect(result).toBe('unknown');
     });
+
+    test('empty index should not cause an error to return although it will cause an invalid regular expression to occur', () => {
+      const index = '';
+      const result = getIndexAlias([index], 'hello');
+      expect(result).toBe('unknown');
+    });
   });
 });

x-pack/plugins/security_solution/server/utils/beat_schema/index.ts

@@ -77,10 +77,16 @@ const convertFieldsToAssociativeArray = (
     : {};
 
 export const getIndexAlias = (defaultIndex: string[], indexName: string): string => {
-  const found = defaultIndex.find((index) => `\\${indexName}`.match(`\\${index}`) != null);
-  if (found != null) {
-    return found;
-  } else {
+  try {
+    const found = defaultIndex.find((index) => `\\${indexName}`.match(`\\${index}`) != null);
+    if (found != null) {
+      return found;
+    } else {
+      return 'unknown';
+    }
+  } catch (error) {
+    // if we encounter an error because the index contains invalid regular expressions then we should return an unknown
+    // rather than blow up with a toaster error upstream
     return 'unknown';
   }
 };