CVE-2022-38774

HIGH

Elastic Endpoint Security/Elastic Endgame - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

Description

An issue was discovered in the quarantine feature of Elastic Endpoint Security and Elastic Endgame for Windows, which could allow unprivileged users to elevate their privileges to those of the LocalSystem account.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Vendor Advisory

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/endpoint-security-8-4-0-7-17-7-and-endgame-3-62-3-security-statement/323754

Vendor Advisory

https://www.elastic.co/community/security

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0027

EPSS Percentile 18.6%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Details

CWE

CWE-269

Status published

Products (2)

elastic/endgame < 3.62.2

elastic/endpoint_security < 7.17.7

Published Jan 26, 2023

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026