CVE-2026-78600: CWE-459 Incomplete Cleanup in Elastic Eck Operator
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.
CVE-2026-78600: CWE-459 Incomplete Cleanup in Elastic Eck Operator
Description
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.
CVSS v3.1
Score 3.5low
Affected software
Weaknesses
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- elastic
- Date Reserved
- 2026-08-24T21:13:52.889Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- null
Threat ID: 6a98384bacd9273b495d16f7
Added to database: 09/02/2026, 14:52:59 UTC
Last updated: 09/03/2026, 01:05:52 UTC
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