What is GHSA-pr5w-c42r-pmjr?

GHSA-pr5w-c42r-pmjr is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Low severity. Incomplete Cleanup (CWE-459) in Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) can lead to unauthorized access...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-pr5w-c42r-pmjr cover?

GHSA-pr5w-c42r-pmjr covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-78600. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-pr5w-c42r-pmjr?

GHSA-pr5w-c42r-pmjr has a CVSS v3 base score of 3.5, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-pr5w-c42r-pmjrLowCVSS 3.5

Incomplete Cleanup (CWE-459) in Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) can lead to unauthorized access...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

September 2, 2026

Last Modified

September 2, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-78600 →

📋 Description

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.

🔗 References (3)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-78600
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-on-kubernetes-3-5-0-security-update-esa-2026-146/390106
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pr5w-c42r-pmjr