CVE-2025-37735

State: Published
Severity: 7.0 High
Published: Nov 6, 2025
Updated: Feb 26, 2026
Reserved: Apr 16, 2025

Description

Improper preservation of permissions in Elastic Defend on Windows hosts can lead to arbitrary files on the system being deleted by the Defend service running as SYSTEM. In some cases, this could result in local privilege escalation.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.0 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	elastic

Weaknesses

CWE-281 Improper Preservation of Permissions

Affected Products

Product	Versions
KibanaElastic	8.0.0 through 8.19.5Affected 9.0.0 through 9.1.5Affected

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-defend-8-19-6-9-1-6-and-9-2-0-security-update-esa-2025-23/383272

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