Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory in Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) Leading to Privilege Escalation

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Summary

CVECVE-2026-115707
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerelastic
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2026-10-29 15:17:17 UTC
Updated2026-10-30 18:17:22 UTC
DescriptionInsertion 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.1 6.4 MEDIUM from [email protected]

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem Types: CWE-538 | CWE-538 CWE-538 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory

VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.1[email protected]Secondary6.4MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
3.1CNACVSS6.4MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Adjacent
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
High
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Elastic Elastic Cloud Enterprise All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Elastic Elastic Cloud Enterprise affected 2.6.0 3.8.5 semver Not specified
CNA Elastic Elastic Cloud Enterprise affected 4.0.0 4.2.0 semver Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-enterprise-ece-3-8-6-and-4-2-1-security-updat... [email protected] discuss.elastic.co Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
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