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Servers and applications

CVE-2022-23708

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.

Severity
Medium 4.3
Published
3 Mar 2022
Last changed
17 Jun 2026
Added to UpHeron
21 Oct 2026
Fixed in
7.17.1
Sources
NVD

Affected software

SoftwareAffected versions
ElasticsearchServers and applications · cpe:a:elastic:elasticsearch
  • From 7.16.0 before 7.17.1

References

  • NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23708
  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-23708