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CVE-2026-115708high7.2

Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following') in Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) Leading to Authentication Bypass

Impact

Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) versions 1.0.0 to 3.8.5 and 4.0.0 to 4.2.0 have an improper link resolution weakness, potentially allowing authentication bypass via symlink attack. The impact is unauthorized configuration changes. Local access is required.

Summarized by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast. Verify details against the original sources.

Affected packages

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Affected products

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Elastic · elastic

Elastic Cloud Enterprise

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affected

1.0.0 → through 3.8.5

semver versions

4.0.0 → through 4.2.0

semver versions

unaffected

unknown

Other versions: unaffected

Original source description

Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following') (CWE-59) in Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) can lead to authentication bypass and unauthorized changes to the configuration of other deployments on the same host via Symlink Attack (CAPEC-132).

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CVE-2026-115708

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Underlying weaknesses

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CWE-59 ↗

CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

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Contributing organizations · 2
elastic

Assigning organization

2026-10-29
CISA-ADP

Additional data publisher

2026-10-30

What changed

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  1. CVE · CVE-2026-115708

    Observed 2026-10-30T19:26:29.769Z · upstream updated 2026-10-30T17:18:28.766Z

    Prioritization updated

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        "name": "Exploitation",
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    after

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        "name": "Technical Impact",
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  2. CVE · CVE-2026-115708

    Observed 2026-10-30T04:20:23.010Z · upstream updated 2026-10-30T03:56:16.440Z

    Prioritization updated

    before

    []

    after

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      {
        "name": "Exploitation",
        "value": "none"
      },
      {
        "name": "Automatable",
        "value": "no"
      },
      {
        "name": "Technical Impact",
        "value": "total"
      }
    ]
  }
]

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References

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discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-enterprise-ece-3-8-6-and-4-2-1-security-update-esa-2026-215/391262
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