CVE-2026-78600

Incomplete Cleanup (CWE-459) in Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) can lead to unauthorized access via Privilege Abuse (CAPEC-122). Authentication credentials persist after a cross-namespace association has been denied by RBAC enforcement, allowing a low-privileged tenant to retain unauthorized read access to the associated Elasticsearch cluster.

  • Published Sep 2, 2026
  • CVSS 3.5 low
  • 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS)

Affected software

CVE-2026-78600 at the National Vulnerability Database