CVE-2022-23708

mediumpriority · track · 17EPSS 0.010 · 64 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.03% (64th) EPSS

CVSS 4 · medium

Is it mine?

4 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

4.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8 · impact 2.9

v3.14.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 1.4

v3.14.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:Nsecondary · OSV

v3.14mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-264USCWE-269US

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Elastic Elasticsearch≤ Versions 7.16.0 through 7.17.0enisa_euvdEU
elastic elasticsearch7.16.0 → 7.17.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Bitnami elasticsearch7.16.0 → 7.17.1osvUSpkg:bitnami/elasticsearch
Maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch7.16.0 → 7.17.1osvUSpkg:maven/org.elasticsearch/elasticsearch

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-pgq6-ccqj-hpqr Elasticsearch privilege escalation2022-03-04ghsa · osvUS
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. Users running a cluster on an affected version that had previously been upgraded from 6.x, should upgrade to 7.17.1. Users that are planning to upgrade from 6.x should not perform an upgrade from 6.x to versions 7.16 through 7.17.0 and should use 7.17.1+ for upgrades from 6.x.
BIT-elasticsearch-2022-237082024-03-06vendor · osvUS
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.

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Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2022-03-03modified 2026-06-17

references (9)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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