VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2026-72648

CVSS score6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.43%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-08-13
Last modified2026-09-04
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Description

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in an Environment Variable (CWE-526) in Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) can lead to information disclosure via Retrieve Embedded Sensitive Data (CAPEC-37). When ECK reconciles a Fleet Server resource that authenticates to Elasticsearch with a service account token, the token is written into the generated workload specification in cleartext rather than being referenced from the Kubernetes Secret that ECK maintains for the other credentials on the same path. Any principal able to read workload specifications in the affected namespace can therefore read a live Elasticsearch credential, even when Kubernetes RBAC does not grant that principal access to Secrets.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-526: Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in an Environment Variable

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