Privilege Escalation Affecting org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch package, versions [7.16.0, 7.17.1)
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- published 9 Mar 2022
- disclosed 4 Mar 2022
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 4 Mar 2022
CVE-2022-23708 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch to version 7.17.1 or higher.
Overview
org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch is a Distributed, RESTful Search Engine.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. 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.
Note: 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.
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