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High · 8.8 CVE-2025-37736 EUVD-2025-38342GHSA-5p88-6546-29fh

Elastic Cloud Enterprise Improper Authorization

Published Nov 7, 2025 · Updated Feb 26, 2026 · Assigned by elastic

Description

Improper Authorization in Elastic Cloud Enterprise can lead to Privilege Escalation where the built-in readonly user can call APIs that should not be allowed. The list of APIs that are affected by this issue is:

post:/platform/configuration/security/service-accounts
delete:/platform/configuration/security/service-accounts/{user_id}
patch:/platform/configuration/security/service-accounts/{user_id}
post:/platform/configuration/security/service-accounts/{user_id}/keys
delete:/platform/configuration/security/service-accounts/{user_id}/keys/{api_key_id}
patch:/user
post:/users
post:/users/auth/keys
delete:/users/auth/keys
delete:/users/auth/keys/_all
delete:/users/auth/keys/{api_key_id}
delete:/users/{user_id}/auth/keys
delete:/users/{user_id}/auth/keys/{api_key_id}
delete:/users/{user_name}
patch:/users/{user_name}

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Elastic Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) 3.8.0 – ≤ 3.8.2, 4.0.0 – ≤ 4.0.2 —

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