CVE-2022-23708

elasticsearch: privilege escalation vulnerability (ESA-2022-02)

Published Mar 3, 2022 CVSS 3.1 · 4.3 Medium EPSS 1.0% KEV · Not listed
Description
A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch 7.17.0’s upgrade assistant, in which upgrading from version 6.x to 7.x would disable the in-built protections on the security index, allowing authenticated users with “*” index permissions access to this index.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-1497 A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch 7.17.0’s upgrade assistant, in which upgrading from version 6.x to 7.x would disable the in-built protections on the security index, allowing authenticated users with “*” index permissions access to this index.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-pgq6-ccqj-hpqr Elasticsearch privilege escalation
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Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
elastic
Published
Updated
Aug 3, 2024, 3:51 AM
Reserved
Jan 19, 2022, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Mar 3, 2022, 10:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 4:30 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Feb 28, 2022, 12:00 AM