CVE-2026-78609 PUBLISHED

Incorrect Authorization in Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes Leading to Unauthorized Modification of Data

Assigner: elastic
Reserved: 24.08.2026 Published: 02.09.2026 Updated: 02.09.2026

Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) can lead to unauthorized modification of data via Metadata Spoofing (CAPEC-690). An actor holding limited Kubernetes permissions confined to a single namespace could cause attacker-controlled certificate material to be included in the Elasticsearch client trust bundle managed by ECK in a separate namespace.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 5.4

Product Status

Vendor Elastic
Product Eck Operator
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 2.6.0 to 3.4.1 (incl.)

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-690 Metadata Spoofing