What is CVE-2022-23709?

CVE-2022-23709 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, classified under CWE-264. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2022-03-03.

How severe is CVE-2022-23709?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

Auth bypass in Elastic Kibana

CVE-2022-23709

A flaw was discovered in Kibana in which users with Read access to the Uptime feature could modify alerting rules. A user with this privilege would be able to create new alerting rules or overwrite existing ones. However, any new or modified rules would not be enabled, and a user with this privilege could not modify alerting connectors. This effectively means that Read users could disable existing alerting rules.

EPSS: 0.006 (42.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Elastic Kibana — versions 8.0.0, Versions 7.7.0 through 7.17.0, and 8.0.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

security@elastic.co (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-23709?: CVE-2022-23709 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, classified under CWE-264. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2022-03-03.
How severe is CVE-2022-23709?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.