CVE-2026-115712

Incorrect Authorization in Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) Leading to Unauthorized Modification of Platform Settings

State: Published
Severity: 4.3 Medium
Published: Oct 29, 2026
Updated: Oct 29, 2026
Reserved: Oct 23, 2026

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N	elastic

Weaknesses

CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Elastic Cloud EnterpriseElastic	3.8.0 through 3.8.5Affected 4.0.0 through 4.2.0Affected

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-enterprise-ece-3-8-6-and-4-2-1-security-update-esa-2026-221/391265

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