---
id: "CVE-2026-115711"
kind: "vulnerability"
aliases: ["CVE-2026-115711"]
title: "Elastic Cloud Enterprise: lower-privileged components expose secrets and role tokens"
severity: "medium"
cvss: 6.4
epss: null
exploited: false
status: "open"
category: "vendor"
products: []
ecosystems: []
tags: ["elastic-cloud-enterprise", "elasticsearch", "self-hosted", "vendor"]
not_affected_if: ["managed-hosting"]
published_at: "2026-10-29T15:17:18+00:00"
first_seen_at: "2026-10-29T15:25:39+00:00"
updated_at: "2026-10-29T15:26:43+00:00"
sources: [{"source": "nvd", "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-115711", "first_seen_at": "2026-10-29T15:25:39+00:00"}]
---

# Elastic Cloud Enterprise: lower-privileged components expose secrets and role tokens

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.

_Summary, check and fix written by a model from the sources; labelled as such._

## Timeline

- 2026-10-29T15:25:39+00:00 nvd https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-115711

## From the sources

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.

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