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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.3

CVE-2022-23708 json

Elasticsearch privilege escalation

published 2022-03-03 4 y ago modified 2026-09-08 2 mo ago also BIT-elasticsearch-2022-23708 , EUVD-2022-1497 , GHSA-pgq6-ccqj-hpqr

cvss
4.3
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 64%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch 7.17.1
  • bitnami elasticsearch 7.17.1
  • elastic elasticsearch 7.17.1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-23708 updated cvss 4.3

elasticsearch: privilege escalation vulnerability (ESA-2022-02)

  • Red Hat Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift openshift-logging/elasticsearch6-rhel8
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.0 servicemesh-grafana, servicemesh-grafana-prometheus
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.1 servicemesh-grafana
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6 elasticsearch Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 elasticsearch Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 elasticsearch
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 openshift3/ose-logging-elasticsearch5
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-logging-elasticsearch6
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) python-elasticsearch
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Decision Manager 7 elasticsearch Red Hat Fuse 7 elasticsearch Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 elasticsearch Red Hat Process Automation 7 elasticsearch
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.03% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 64% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
GitHub 3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD 3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
OSV 3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch
>=7.16.0, <7.17.1
7.17.1
bitnami elasticsearch
>=7.16.0, <7.17.1
7.17.1

Affected products

  • Elastic elasticsearch

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

Sources

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