CVE-2022-38777 (GCVE-0-2022-38777)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-02-08 00:00
Modified
2025-03-25 14:23
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Elastic 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
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