{"id":"CVE-2026-115711","kind":"vulnerability","aliases":["CVE-2026-115711"],"related":[],"title":"Elastic Cloud Enterprise: lower-privileged components expose secrets and role tokens","description":"Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory (CWE-538) in Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) can lead to credential disclosure via Retrieve Embedded Sensitive Data (CAPEC-37). ECE stores runtime information about platform service containers in a location that lower-privileged platform components can read, and this information includes secrets from the container configuration. An attacker with access to the internal ECE platform services can obtain these secrets, which include role tokens. A role token can let the attacker add an unauthorized host to the installation with the roles of that token.","summary":"Elastic Cloud Enterprise stores runtime information about platform service containers in a location that lower-privileged platform components can read, and that information includes container configuration secrets. An attacker with access to the internal ECE platform services can obtain these secrets, including role tokens, and use a role token to add an unauthorized host to the installation with that token's roles.","severity":"medium","cvss":6.4,"epss":null,"exploited":false,"exploited_at":null,"products":[],"ecosystems":[],"tags":["elastic-cloud-enterprise","elasticsearch","self-hosted","vendor"],"not_affected_if":["managed-hosting"],"how_to_check":null,"fix":null,"status":"open","published_at":"2026-10-29T15:17:18+00:00","first_seen_at":"2026-10-29T15:25:39+00:00","triaged_at":"2026-10-29T15:26:43+00:00","updated_at":"2026-10-29T15:26:43+00:00","category":"vendor","confidence":0.5,"triage":{"at":"2026-10-29T15:26:43Z","model":"claude-haiku-5-5","output":{"fix":"unknown","reach":"internet","title":"Elastic Cloud Enterprise: lower-privileged components expose secrets and role tokens","impact":"high","summary":"Elastic Cloud Enterprise stores runtime information about platform service containers in a location that lower-privileged platform components can read, and that information includes container configuration secrets. An attacker with access to the internal ECE platform services can obtain these secrets, including role tokens, and use a role token to add an unauthorized host to the installation with that token's roles.","audience":"businesses","category":"vendor","nicknames":[],"who_cares":["elastic-cloud-enterprise","self-hosted","elasticsearch"],"confidence":0.5,"fix_status":"unknown","needs_auth":"yes","worst_case":"attacker reads role tokens and adds unauthorized hosts to the installation","analyst_note":"Find the affected and fixed ECE versions and the vendor advisory in Elastic's security pages; the NVD entry alone gives no version ranges.","how_to_check":"unknown","plain_action":"","needs_analyst":true,"not_affected_if":["managed-hosting"],"who_is_affected":"Applies to self-hosted Elastic Cloud Enterprise installations, where an attacker already has access to the internal platform services. The sources do not name affected versions or say how to check exposure. Teams using Elastic Cloud hosted services managed by Elastic are not described by the sources as affected.","user_interaction":"no","needs_special_setup":"unknown","severity_if_unknown":"unknown"},"cost_usd":0.000689,"input_tokens":4226,"output_tokens":532,"severity_before":"medium"},"analyst_status":null,"analyst_note":null,"search":"'-115711':15A,18A '-2026':14A,17A '-37':120C '-538':103C 'access':59B,98C,152C 'add':79B,174C 'attack':57B,150C,173C 'capec':119C 'cloud':2A,21B,29B,106C 'compon':7A,46B,137C 'configur':54B,148C 'contain':37B,53B,128C,147C 'credenti':112C 'cve':13A,16A 'cwe':102C 'data':118C 'directori':101C 'disclosur':113C 'ece':63B,108C,121C,156C 'elast':1A,20B,28B,105C 'elastic-cloud-enterpris':19B 'elasticsearch':23B 'embed':116C 'enterpris':3A,22B,30B,107C 'expos':8A 'extern':97C 'externally-access':96C 'file':99C 'host':26B,82B,177C 'includ':52B,70B,143C,164C 'inform':33B,51B,94C,124C,142C 'insert':91C 'instal':85B,180C 'intern':62B,155C 'lead':110C 'let':171C 'locat':40B,131C 'lower':5A,43B,134C 'lower-privileg':4A,42B,133C 'obtain':67B,160C 'platform':35B,45B,64B,126C,136C,157C 'privileg':6A,44B,135C 'read':48B,139C 'retriev':115C 'role':11A,71B,76B,90B,165C,168C,183C 'runtim':32B,123C 'secret':9A,55B,69B,144C,162C 'self':25B 'self-host':24B 'sensit':93C,117C 'servic':36B,65B,127C,158C 'store':31B,122C 'token':12A,72B,77B,88B,166C,169C,186C 'unauthor':81B,176C 'use':74B 'vendor':27B 'via':114C","nicknames":[],"mitigations":[],"who_affected":"Applies to self-hosted Elastic Cloud Enterprise installations, where an attacker already has access to the internal platform services. The sources do not name affected versions or say how to check exposure. Teams using Elastic Cloud hosted services managed by Elastic are not described by the sources as affected.","tier":"C","verified":{},"analyst_revisit_at":null,"fix_status":"none","audience":"businesses","plain_action":null,"first_public_at":"2026-10-29T15:17:18+00:00","kev":null,"cvss_vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","cvss_by":"security@elastic.co","poc_count":0,"sources":[{"source":"nvd","external_id":"CVE-2026-115711","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-115711","severity":null,"published_at":"2026-10-29T15:17:18+00:00","modified_at":"2026-10-29T15:17:18+00:00","first_seen_at":"2026-10-29T15:25:39+00:00","fetched_at":"2026-10-29T15:25:39+00:00","note":null}],"documents":[],"notice":"Free to read at a human pace. An API with keys and an MCP server are in preparation; early access: hello@infrastack.ai"}