Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) 3.8.6 and 4.2.1 Security Update (ESA-2026-218)
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Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) versions 3.8.6 and 4.2.1 received a security update addressing CWE-538, which could allow credential disclosure via externally-accessible files.
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Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory in Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) Leading to Credential Disclosure Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory (CWE-538) in Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) can lead to credential disclosure via Retrieve Embedded Sensitive Data (CAPEC-37). ECE stores runtime information about platform service containers in a location that lower-privileged platform components can read, and this inform