CVE-2022-23708

Summary

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 Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
ElasticelasticsearchVersions 7.16.0 through 7.17.0affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-264: CWE-264

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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