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.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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. (CVE-2022-23708)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - 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. (CVE-2022-23708)

According to its self-reported version number, the Kibana application running on the remote host is 7.15.x prior to 7.17.1. It is, therefore, affected by :

- Privilege Escalation when upgrading from version 6.x to 7.x would disable the in-built protections on the security index (CVE-2022-23708)

- Cross-Site Scripting in the Data Preview Pane (CVE-2022-23710)

Note that the scanner has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
260227	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-23708	Nessus	Misc.	Local	medium
417519	SCA: security update for org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (GHSA-pgq6-ccqj-hpqr)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium
417519	SCA: security update for org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (GHSA-pgq6-ccqj-hpqr)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium
113519	Kibana 7.15.0 < 7.17.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	Version Based	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2022-23708

medium

Tenable Plugins

medium

medium

medium

medium