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[email protected]CVE-2022-23708

HistoryMar 03, 2022 - 10:15 p.m.

CVE-2022-23708

2022-03-0322:15:08

CWE-264

[email protected]

web.nvd.nist.gov

238

cve-2022-23708

elasticsearch

upgrade assistant

security

authentication

4 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

4.3 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

4.2 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

22.7%

JSON

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.

Affected configurations

NVD

Node

elasticelasticsearchRange7.16.0–7.17.1

CPENameOperatorVersion
elastic:elasticsearchelastic elasticsearchlt7.17.1

CPE	Name	Operator	Version
elastic:elasticsearch	elastic elasticsearch	lt	7.17.1

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "elasticsearch",
    "vendor": "Elastic",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "Versions 7.16.0 through 7.17.0"
      }
    ]
  }
]