Name: CVE-2022-23708: Undefined Security Weakness
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2022-03-03T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2022-23708, CWE-264, CVSS 4.3, EPSS 0.01035

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 Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 4.3
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Elastic Elasticsearch	—	Upgrade Elastic Elasticsearch to the latest version	May 13, 2025	Mar 3, 2022
Ubuntu	—	No solution exists	Jun 26, 2025	Mar 3, 2022

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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