CVE-2026-78600
Incomplete Cleanup (CWE-459) in Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) can lead to unauthorized access via Privilege Abuse (CAPEC-122). Authentication credentials persist after a cross-namespace association has been denied by RBAC enforcement, allowing a low-privileged tenant to retain unauthorized read access to the associated Elasticsearch cluster.
Published:Sep 2, 2026
Last Modified:Sep 3, 2026
EPS:Sep 2, 2026
EPSS Score:0.00174
CVSS Score:3.5
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Elastic
Product
Eck Operator
Elastic
Eck Operator
Vendor
Elastic
Product
Elastic Cloud On Kubernetes
Elastic
Elastic Cloud On Kubernetes
Exploits
No exploit reference
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
No CAPEC recorded yet
Related CVEs
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
