Update elastic to 5.6.3 can't start

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
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Caused by: java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1

[2017-10-20T11:40:56,033][WARN ][o.e.b.ElasticsearchUncaughtExceptionHandler] [node-1] uncaught exception in thread [main]
org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.StartupException: java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:136) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.3.jar:5.6.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:123) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.3.jar:5.6.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:70) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.3.jar:5.6.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:134) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.3.jar:5.6.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.3.jar:5.6.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:91) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.3.jar:5.6.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:84) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.3.jar:5.6.3]
Caused by: java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1
        at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1967) ~[?:1.8.0_121]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Security.readPolicy(Security.java:214) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.3.jar:5.6.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Security.getPluginPermissions(Security.java:171) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.3.jar:5.6.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Security.configure(Security.java:118) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.3.jar:5.6.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:228) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.3.jar:5.6.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:342) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.3.jar:5.6.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:132) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.3.jar:5.6.3]
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From what version are you coming from? Can you provide the command line that you are using to start the node?

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Did you upgrade all the plugins that needed upgrade?

In comment above, you are already asked about which version you upgraded from.

If it was major version upgrade, did you use migration helper ?

If yes, was there anything in red ?

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