CVE-2026-78604

highpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.001 · 4 %ileUS
grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled
Exploitable?
—
no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
0.15% (4th) EPSS
CVSS 7.8 · high
Is it mine?
3 products
Check your exposure
Who says so?
1 sources
nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource (CWE-732) in Elastic Agent can lead to local privilege escalation via Replace Binaries (CAPEC-642). On Windows systems where Elastic Agent is installed in unprivileged mode, resources used by the agent service are created with access controls broader than required. A local user could take advantage of this to cause the service to execute code of their choosing, ultimately obtaining SYSTEM-level privileges on the host.

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cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.8
010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.17.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · security@elastic.coexploitability 1.8 · impact 5.9
v3.17.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS
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weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-732US
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affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

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sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

nvdNVDCVE.orgMITRE
published 2026-09-02modified 2026-09-04
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references (1) nvd

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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