CVE-2022-23708 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-7-17-1-security-update/298447

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

4.3