Description
A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch 7.17.0’s upgrade assistant, in which upgrading from version 6.x to 7.x would disable the in-built protections on the security index, allowing authenticated users with “*” index permissions access to this index.
Remediation
References
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-7-17-1-security-update/298447
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220729-0003/
Related Vulnerabilities
CVE-2022-28220 Vulnerability in maven package org.apache.james:james-server-protocols-imap4
CVE-2022-38370 Vulnerability in maven package org.apache.iotdb:iotdb-grafana-connector
CVE-2019-10080 Vulnerability in maven package org.apache.nifi:nifi-lookup-services-bundle
CVE-2021-23267 Vulnerability in maven package org.craftercms:crafter-engine
CVE-2023-26049 Vulnerability in maven package org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server