CVE-2026-115707 (GCVE-0-2026-115707)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-29 14:09 – Updated: 2026-10-30 17:18
VLAI
Title
Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory in Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) Leading to Privilege Escalation
Summary
Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory (CWE-538) in Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) can lead to privilege escalation via Retrieve Embedded Sensitive Data (CAPEC-37). After the ECE certificate rotation procedure runs, data that it retains contains platform credentials and certificate authority private keys, and lower-privileged platform components can read this data. An attacker who controls any host in the installation can use this data to get full control of the ECE control plane and of the deployments that it manages.
Severity
6.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-10-30 03:56 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-538 - Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory
Assigner
elastic CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 69/100 over 161 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Elastic Elastic Cloud Enterprise Affected: 2.6.0 , ≤ 3.8.5 (semver)
Affected: 4.0.0 , ≤ 4.2.0 (semver)
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