CVE-2022-23708

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    CVE-2022-23708

    Published: 3 Mar 2022Last Modified: 24 Oct 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-7-17-1-security-update/298447, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/23xxx/CVE-2022-23708.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23708, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220729-0003/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 6fc81662312141fe7691d7c1c91b8658ac17aa0d
    Fixed -e5acb99f822233d62d6444ce45a4543dc1c8059a

    Affected versions

    v7.17.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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