High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Jul 6, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-23714

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.

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Affected products

Elastic/Endpoint Security for Windowsllm-fuzzy
Elastic/Elastic Security Endpointcpe-rescue
Range: Versions 7.13.0 through 7.17.4 and 8.0.0 through 8.2.3

Patches

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References

discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-8-3-1-8-3-0-and-7-17-5-security-update/308613nvdMitigationVendor Advisory
www.elastic.co/community/securitynvdVendor Advisory

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