Elastic Cloud Enterprise up to 3.8.5/4.2.0 file information disclosure

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Elastic Cloud Enterprise up to 3.8.5/4.2.0 and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing. Such manipulation leads to file information disclosure. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-115711. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Elastic Cloud Enterprise up to 3.8.5/4.2.0 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a file information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-538. The product places sensitive information into files or directories that are accessible to actors who are allowed to have access to the files, but not to the sensitive information. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

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.

The advisory is shared for download at discuss.elastic.co. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-115711 since 10/23/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1083.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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CPE 2.3info

CPE 2.2info

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 4.6
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.6

VulDB Base Score: 2.7
VulDB Temp Score: 2.7
VulDB Vector: 🔒
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

CNA Base Score: 6.4
CNA Vector (elastic): 🔒

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Exploitinginfo

Class: File information disclosure
CWE: CWE-538 / CWE-200 / CWE-284
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ATT&CK: 🔒

Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔒
Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

10/23/2026 CVE reserved
10/29/2026 +6 days Advisory disclosed
10/29/2026 +0 days VulDB entry created
10/29/2026 +0 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: discuss.elastic.co
Status: Confirmed

CNA: elastic
CVE: CVE-2026-115711 (🔒)

GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2026-115711
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-428432

Entryinfo

Created: 10/29/2026 15:32
Changes: 10/29/2026 15:32 (61)
Complete: 🔍
Cache ID: 216::103

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