LocalSystem privilege escalation through rollback feature
Published Jan 24, 2023 · Updated Apr 2, 2025
Privilege escalation in Elastic Endpoint Security 8.4.0 allows local users to gain LocalSystem privileges through the Windows rollback feature. Elastic has not published the specific rollback operation or validation failure that permits the privilege transition. Exploitation requires a low-privileged local user and the Platinum or Enterprise self-healing rollback option, which is disabled by default; successful exploitation grants LocalSystem control.
Summary
What happened
Privilege escalation in Elastic Endpoint Security 8.4.0 allows local users to gain LocalSystem privileges through the Windows rollback feature. Elastic has not published the specific rollback operation or validation failure that permits the privilege transition. Exploitation requires a low-privileged local user and the Platinum or Enterprise self-healing rollback option, which is disabled by default; successful exploitation grants LocalSystem control.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-38775
- Published
- Jan 24, 2023
- Updated
- Apr 2, 2025
- Vendor
- Elastic
- Product
- Elastic Security
- Classifications
- CWE-269, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Jan 24, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 2, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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