{"id":"elastic-security-a15c5e3cf7f7","seq":2179260,"kind":"advisory","title":"Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) 3.8.6 and 4.2.1 Security Update (ESA-2026-212)","url":"https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-enterprise-ece-3-8-6-and-4-2-1-security-update-esa-2026-212/391261","permalink":"https://vulnpulse.app/items/elastic-security-a15c5e3cf7f7","summary":"Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory in Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) Leading to Privilege Escalation Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory (CWE-538) in Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) can lead to privilege escalation via Retrieve Embedded Sensitive Data (CAPEC-37). After the ECE certificate rotation procedure runs, data that it retains contains platform credentials and certificate authority private keys, and lower-privileged platform components can read this data. An attacker who controls any host in the ins…","severity":null,"techs":["elasticsearch"],"cves":[],"tags":["security"],"source":{"id":"elastic-security","name":"Elastic Security Announcements"},"published_at":"2026-10-29T10:45:48.000Z","fetched_at":"2026-10-29T10:49:52.785Z"}