6.5

CVE-2026-72648: elastic eck operator

CVSS: 6.5v3.1MediumAnalyzed
Published 13-08-2026Last modified 13-08-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-72648 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability in elastic eck operator. EPSS estimates a 0.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 35.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
26/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.43%
0%100%
Low · +0.12 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 13-08-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 13-08-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 2 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.43%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

35%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.12 pp

From 0.31% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.43%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Elastic2 products

1 vendor · 2 products

References

1 links