---
id: CVE-2026-115711
title: >-
  Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or
  Directory in Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) Leading to Credential Disclosure
summary: >-
  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…
severity: medium
cvss: 6.4
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'
cvssSource: cna
cwe:
  - CWE-538
vendor: Elastic
product: Elastic Cloud Enterprise
affected:
  - cloud_enterprise >= 1.0.0 <= 3.8.5
  - cloud_enterprise >= 4.0.0 <= 4.2.0
ssvc:
  exploitation: none
  automatable: 'no'
  technicalImpact: total
  timestamp: '2026-10-30T03:56:13.783802Z'
published: '2026-10-29'
updated: '2026-10-30'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-30T17:18:28.502Z'
source: CVEORG
sourceUrl: 'https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-115711'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-enterprise-ece-3-8-6-and-4-2-1-security-update-esa-2026-218/391264
tags:
  - cve.org
epss: 0.00222
epssPercentile: 0.1285
ingestedAt: '2026-11-05T16:24:31.186Z'
---

## Overview

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.

## Affected

- `cloud_enterprise >= 1.0.0 <= 3.8.5`
- `cloud_enterprise >= 4.0.0 <= 4.2.0`

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.