Medium (4.3) in elastic elasticsearch. EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch 7.17.1.
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.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
4.3 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS
1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 63% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)