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

CVE-2022-38777

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: Elastic Security versions up to 7.17.8 and 8.4.3 and Elastic Endgame versions up to 3.62.2

Patches

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References

discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-7-17-9-8-5-0-and-8-6-1-security-update/324661nvdRelease NotesVendor Advisory
www.elastic.co/community/securitynvdVendor Advisory

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