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Improper Privilege Management

CVE-2022-23708

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch 7.16.0 through 7.17.0 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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  • NETWORK
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  • UNCHANGED
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CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management

An effective privilege management infrastructure provides valid users with required access and privileges across heterogeneous technology environments. An application with a faulty privilege management infrastructure allows higher than authorized privileges or enables privilege escalation. This can lead to security incidents such as system infiltration, data breach, and complete system takeover.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published