CVE-2022-23708
Elasticsearch privilege escalation
4.3
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.91%
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.
How to fix CVE-2022-23708
To remediate CVE-2022-23708, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 7.17.1 or later
- —upgrade to 7.17.1 or later
Is CVE-2022-23708 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.9%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- >= 7.16.0, < 7.17.1
- >= 7.16.0, < 7.17.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |