CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-23708

Published: Mar 03, 2022 | Modified: Jul 03, 2023

CVSS 3.x

4.3

MEDIUM

Source:

NVD

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

CVSS 2.x

4 MEDIUM

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23708
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

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

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Elasticsearch	Elastic	7.16.0	*

References

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