What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-38774

• 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: 2023-01-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

An issue was discovered in the quarantine feature of Elastic Endpoint Security and Elastic Endgame for Windows, which could allow unprivileged users to elevate their privileges to those of the LocalSystem account.

Affected products

• Elastic Endgame: through 3.62.2
• Elastic Endpoint Security: before 7.17.7; from 8.0.0 before 8.4.0 — fixed in 7.17.7, 8.4.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Elastic Endpoint Security 7.17.7, 8.4.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/endpoint-security-8-4-0-7-17-7-and-endgame-3-62-3-security-statement/323754
• https://www.elastic.co/community/security
• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/endpoint-security-8-4-0-7-17-7-and-endgame-3-62-3-security-statement/323754
• https://www.elastic.co/community/security

Get alerted when CVE-2022-38774 or the next vulnerability affects your stack