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Elastic Elasticsearch: CVE-2022-23708: Vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Mar 3, 2022
Added
May 13, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

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.

Solution

elastic-elasticsearch-upgrade-latest
Title
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