CVE-2025-37735

CVSS 7 HIGHEPSS 0.1%CWE-281

Vexday Risk Score

21Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 7EPSS 0.1%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

06 Nov 2025Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

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.

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

Elastic · Kibana

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References

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