CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-38774

Improper Privilege Management

Published: Jan 26, 2023 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Weakness

The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Endgame Elastic * 3.62.2 (including)
Endpoint_security Elastic * 7.17.7 (excluding)
Endpoint_security Elastic 8.0.0 (including) 8.4.0 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References