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High severity · published Jul 6, 2022
CVE-2022-23714
A local privilege escalation (LPE) issue was discovered in the ransomware canaries features of Elastic Endpoint Security for Windows, which could allow unprivileged users to…
7.8
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A local privilege escalation (LPE) issue was discovered in the ransomware canaries features of Elastic Endpoint Security for Windows, which could allow unprivileged users to elevate their privileges to those of the LocalSystem account.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 14% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
ES
Endpoint Security · Elastic
7.13.0 through 7.17.4; 8.0.0 through 8.2.3 · source: NVD
Affected product
ES
Endpoint Security
Elastic
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23714
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-23714
Mitigation
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-8-3-1-8-3-0-and-7-17-5-security-update/308613
Vendor Advisory
https://www.elastic.co/community/security
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