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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.8 Medium

CVE-2026-115706

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) Leading to Privilege Escalation

Description

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key (CWE-639) in Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) can lead to privilege escalation via Privilege Abuse (CAPEC-122). An attacker who controls any host in an ECE installation can obtain credentials that are reserved for other platform roles. These credentials can give the attacker full control of the ECE control plane and of the deployments that it manages.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Elastic Elastic Cloud Enterprise

Default version status: unaffected

  • 1.0.0 to ≤ 3.8.5affected
  • 4.0.0 to ≤ 4.2.0affected

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