High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Jan 26, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-38775

Description

An issue was discovered in the rollback feature 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-create
Elastic/Elastic Security Endpointcpe-rescue
Range: Version 8.4.0

Patches

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References

discuss.elastic.co/t/endpoint-security-8-4-1-security-statement/323753nvdVendor Advisory
www.elastic.co/community/securitynvdVendor Advisory

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