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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: elastic

Published: 2022-03-03T21:48:14

Updated: 2024-08-03T03:51:45.980Z

Reserved: 2022-01-19T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2022-23708

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2022-03-03T22:15:08.800

Modified: 2023-07-03T20:34:44.583

Link: CVE-2022-23708

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2022-02-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-23708 - Bugzilla