CVE catalog
CVE-2022-23708
UBUNTU-CVE-2022-23708
- Severity
- Medium · CVSS 4.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - Published
- Updated
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 1.03% · Oct 25, 2026
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.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu | elasticsearch | 16.04 | 1.6.2+dfsg-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | elasticsearch | 16.04 | 1.7.3+dfsg-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | elasticsearch | 16.04 | 1.7.3+dfsg-2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | elasticsearch | 16.04 | 1.7.3+dfsg-3 | vulnerable |
Fixed-version evidence
OpenFactory catalog packages
No matching packages in this catalog.
Observed: