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.
Published: 2022-03-03
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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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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Elastic Elasticsearch
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: elastic

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T03:51:45.980Z

Reserved: 2022-01-19T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-23708

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Status : Modified

Published: 2022-03-03T22:15:08.800

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:49:09.053

Link: CVE-2022-23708

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2022-02-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-23708 - Bugzilla

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