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ElasticCVE-2026-78600

Elastic Eck Operator: incomplete cleanup

Low3.5CVE-2026-78600 · Published Sep 2, 2026 · updated Sep 3, 2026

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.

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Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
Eck Operator
Product
>= 2.6.0, <= 3.4.1No fix yet
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