CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-38777

Improper Privilege Management

Published: Feb 08, 2023 | Modified: Feb 21, 2023
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 rollback feature of Elastic Endpoint Security 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 * 3.62.3 (excluding)
Endpoint_security Elastic * 7.17.9 (excluding)
Endpoint_security Elastic 8.0.0 (including) 8.5.0 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References