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CVE-2022-23714

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-07-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

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.

Affected products

• Elastic Endpoint Security: from 7.13.0 through 7.17.4; from 8.0.0 through 8.2.3

References

• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-8-3-1-8-3-0-and-7-17-5-security-update/308613
• https://www.elastic.co/community/security
• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-8-3-1-8-3-0-and-7-17-5-security-update/308613
• https://www.elastic.co/community/security

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