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CVE-2026-115712medium4.3

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

Impact

Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) versions 3.8.0 to 3.8.5 and 4.0.0 to 4.2.0 have an incorrect authorization weakness, allowing authenticated read-only users to modify platform settings. An attacker with read-only access can change installation-wide account settings.

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

3.8.0 → through 3.8.5

semver versions

4.0.0 → through 4.2.0

semver versions

unaffected

unknown

Other versions: unaffected

Original source 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.

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CVE-2026-115712

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Underlying weaknesses

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CWE-863 ↗

CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization

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Contributing organizations · 2
elastic

Assigning organization

2026-10-29
CISA-ADP

Additional data publisher

2026-10-29

What changed

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  1. CVE · CVE-2026-115712

    Observed 2026-10-29T17:12:03.370Z · upstream updated 2026-10-29T16:49:21.112Z

    Prioritization updated

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    "source": "CISA-ADP",
    "type": "SSVC",
    "role": "CISA Coordinator",
    "timestamp": "2026-10-29T14:38:05.538290Z",
    "decisions": [
      {
        "name": "Exploitation",
        "value": "none"
      },
      {
        "name": "Automatable",
        "value": "no"
      },
      {
        "name": "Technical Impact",
        "value": "partial"
      }
    ]
  }
]

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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-2026-221/391265
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