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01 Record

CVE-2022-23708

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

UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: elastic
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector

02 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

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation
Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision
Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability
1.03% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 63.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
4.3 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD analysis status
Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity
Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published
2022-03-03 21:48Z4 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-08-03 03:51Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2022-01-19
Assigning CNA
elastic
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
Not rated by the issuing CNA
CNA CVSS vector
Not published by the issuing CNA
Weaknesses
Data version
5.1
Document digest
eeaaa5bff5fce0a994397cdd5dca18222debe7d880aefe30303a359e10531e4c

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
ElasticelasticsearchVersions 7.16.0 through 7.17.0—

06 References

07 Fixed in

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

  • elasticsearch
    No fix yet

Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

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