CVE-2022-38774

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Jan 24, 2023
Updated: Apr 2, 2025
Reserved: Aug 26, 2022

Description

An issue was discovered in the quarantine feature of Elastic Endpoint Security and Elastic Endgame for Windows, which could allow unprivileged users to elevate their privileges to those of the LocalSystem account.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-269

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Elastic Endpoint Security and Elastic Endgame SecurityElastic	Elastic Security versions up to 7.17.6 and 8.3.3 and Elastic Endgame versions up to 3.62.2Affected

References

https://www.elastic.co/community/security
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/endpoint-security-8-4-0-7-17-7-and-endgame-3-62-3-security-statement/323754

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