Elastic Endpoint Security Rollback Feature Privilege Escalation (CVE-2022-38777)
CVE-2022-38777 Published on February 8, 2023
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.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2022-38777 can be exploited with local system access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
Improper Privilege Management
The software does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.
Products Associated with CVE-2022-38777
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Affected Versions
Elastic Endpoint Security Version Elastic Security versions up to 7.17.8 and 8.4.3 and Elastic Endgame versions up to 3.62.2 is affected by CVE-2022-38777Exploit Probability
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