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CVE-2026-78609

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.4 Published: 2026-09-02 Modified: 2026-09-02

Description

Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) can lead to unauthorized modification of data via Metadata Spoofing (CAPEC-690). An actor holding limited Kubernetes permissions confined to a single namespace could cause attacker-controlled certificate material to be included in the Elasticsearch client trust bundle managed by ECK in a separate namespace.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-863

References