What is CVE-2022-23714?

CVE-2022-23714 is a high-severity vulnerability in Elastic Endpoint Security, classified under CWE-264. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2022-07-06.

How severe is CVE-2022-23714?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Elastic Endpoint Security

CVE-2022-23714

A local privilege escalation (LPE) issue was discovered in the ransomware canaries features of Elastic Endpoint Security for Windows, which could allow unprivileged users to elevate their privileges to those of the LocalSystem account.

EPSS: 0.002 (12.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Elastic Endpoint Security — versions Versions 7.13.0 through 7.17.4 and 8.0.0 through 8.2.3
Elastic Endpoint_security
Microsoft Windows

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-264

References

security@elastic.co (x_refsource_MISC, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory)
security@elastic.co (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-23714?: CVE-2022-23714 is a high-severity vulnerability in Elastic Endpoint Security, classified under CWE-264. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2022-07-06.
How severe is CVE-2022-23714?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.