CVE-2022-38777

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Feb 8, 2023
Updated: Mar 25, 2025
Reserved: Aug 26, 2022

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.

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 SecurityElastic	Elastic Security versions up to 7.17.8 and 8.4.3 and Elastic Endgame versions up to 3.62.2Affected

References

https://www.elastic.co/community/security
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-7-17-9-8-5-0-and-8-6-1-security-update/324661

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