---
id: "CVE-2026-115712"
kind: "vulnerability"
aliases: ["CVE-2026-115712"]
title: "Elastic Cloud Enterprise: read-only users can change platform-wide account settings"
severity: "medium"
cvss: 4.3
epss: null
exploited: false
status: "open"
category: "infrastructure"
products: []
ecosystems: []
tags: ["elastic-cloud-enterprise", "infrastructure", "self-hosted"]
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: "2026-10-29T15:27:07+00:00"
sources: [{"source": "nvd", "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-115712", "first_seen_at": "2026-10-29T15:25:39+00:00"}]
---

# Elastic Cloud Enterprise: read-only users can change platform-wide account settings

Elastic Cloud Enterprise has an authorization flaw that lets a user with read-only platform access change an installation-wide account setting. Only platform administrators should be able to change that setting, so a read-only account can alter settings meant for administrators.

_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-2026-115712

## From the sources

Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) can lead to unauthorized modification of platform-level settings via Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs (CAPEC-1). An authenticated user with read-only access to the platform can change an installation-wide account setting that only platform administrators are permitted to change.

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