{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2022-23708","details":"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.","modified":"2025-10-24T04:53:29Z","published":"2022-03-03T22:15:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2022-23708"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-23708"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-7-17-1-security-update/298447"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-23708"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"elasticsearch","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/elasticsearch@1.7.3+dfsg-3?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["1.6.2+dfsg-1","1.7.3+dfsg-1","1.7.3+dfsg-2","1.7.3+dfsg-3"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"elasticsearch","binary_version":"1.7.3+dfsg-3"},{"binary_name":"libelasticsearch1.7-java","binary_version":"1.7.3+dfsg-3"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2022/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-23708.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}