CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-38777
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-02-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
Description
An issue was discovered in the rollback feature of Elastic Endpoint Security for Windows, which could allow unprivileged users to elevate their privileges to those of the LocalSystem account.
Affected configurations
• elastic endgame (< 3.62.3)
• elastic endpoint security (< 7.17.9)
• elastic endpoint security (>= 8.0.0 < 8.5.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-7-17-9-8-5-0-and-8-6-1-security-update/324661 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.elastic.co/community/security Vendor Advisory
- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-7-17-9-8-5-0-and-8-6-1-security-update/324661 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.elastic.co/community/security Vendor Advisory