CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-78609

5.4 MEDIUM Published 2026-09-02 Modified 2026-09-04 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-09-02
Last modified
2026-09-04
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-863

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• elastic elastic cloud on kubernetes (>= 2.6.0 < 3.5.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization weakness

References