CVE-2026-78604: CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource in Elastic Elastic Agent
Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource (CWE-732) in Elastic Agent can lead to local privilege escalation via Replace Binaries (CAPEC-642). On Windows systems where Elastic Agent is installed in unprivileged mode, resources used by the agent service are created with access controls broader than required. A local user could take advantage of this to cause the service to execute code of their choosing, ultimately obtaining SYSTEM-level privileges on the host.
CVE-2026-78604: CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource in Elastic Elastic Agent
Description
Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource (CWE-732) in Elastic Agent can lead to local privilege escalation via Replace Binaries (CAPEC-642). On Windows systems where Elastic Agent is installed in unprivileged mode, resources used by the agent service are created with access controls broader than required. A local user could take advantage of this to cause the service to execute code of their choosing, ultimately obtaining SYSTEM-level privileges on the host.
CVSS v3.1
Score 7.8high
Affected software
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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: 6a98384bacd9273b495d16fd
Added to database: 09/02/2026, 14:52:59 UTC
Last updated: 09/02/2026, 15:38:07 UTC
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