Improper certificate validation in Elastic Docker images
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- Spoofing
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-295.
Summary
Elastic Docker images are affected in versions 8.0.0 through 8.19.23, 9.0.0 through 9.4.8 and 9.5.0 through 9.5.5. Their operating system certificate bundle includes root certificate authorities that signed eight eMudhra intermediate certificate authorities whose private keys are compromised, so certificates issued with those keys are accepted (CWE-295). An attacker positioned between a product and the remote party can present such a certificate to intercept or modify TLS traffic.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-03
Description from the CNA
Improper Certificate Validation (CWE-295) in the operating system certificate bundle shipped in the Docker images of APM Server; Auditbeat, Filebeat, Heartbeat, Metricbeat and Packetbeat; Elastic Agent, including Fleet Server and Cloudbeat; Logstash, for TLS connections that use the operating system certificate bundle; Elastic connectors; Universal Profiling (host agent, collector and symbolizer); and Elastic Maps Server. This certificate bundle, a dependency of these products (Dependency on Vulnerable Third-Party Component, CWE-1395), could allow an attacker to intercept or modify TLS-protected traffic via Signature Spoofing by Key Theft (CAPEC-474). The certificate bundle includes root certificate authorities that signed eight eMudhra intermediate certificate authorities whose private keys are compromised. Anyone with these keys can issue a certificate for any host name that these products accept as trusted. Exploitation requires an attacker in a network position between the product and the remote party, who presents a certificate issued with one of the compromised keys.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
The sources list no fixed version for Elastic Docker images.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-03
Timeline
- 2026-11-03 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-115714
- 2026-11-03 CISA SSVC decision points changed
- 2026-11-03 Priority changed: MEDIUM → LOW
- 2026-11-03 Alias added: GHSA-qrp4-c626-6hw2
References
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Sources
- CVE-2026-115714 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-115714 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-qrp4-c626-6hw2 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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