CVE-2022-23708

MEDIUM

Elasticsearch 7.17.0 - Authenticated Security Index Access Control Bypass via Upgrade Assistant

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220729-0003/

Scores

CVSS v3 4.3
EPSS 0.0024
EPSS Percentile 47.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-264
Status published
Products (2)
elastic/elasticsearch 7.16.0 - 7.17.1
org.elasticsearch/elasticsearch 7.16.0 - 7.17.1Maven
Published Mar 03, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026