Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.147749
Category:	Privilege escalation
Title:	Elastic Elasticsearch Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (ESA-2022-02)
Summary:	Elastic Elasticsearch is prone to a privilege escalation; vulnerability.
Description:	Summary: Elastic Elasticsearch is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability. Vulnerability Insight: A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch'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. Affected Software/OS: Elastic Elasticsearch version 7.16.0 through 7.17.0. Solution: Update to version 7.17.1 or later. CVSS Score: 4.0 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2022-23708 https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-7-17-1-security-update/298447
Copyright	Copyright (C) 2022 Greenbone Networks GmbH

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