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CVE-2025-37735

Published: Nov 6, 2025Updated: Nov 6, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-281
NVD MITRE
7.0CVSSHIGH
EPSS Score
0.1%
Top 97.2%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

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.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:LAC:HPR:LUI:NS:UC:HI:HA:H
Exploitability
AV:LAttack Vector
Local
AC:HAttack Complexity
High
PR:LPrivileges Required
Low
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:HConfidentiality
High
I:HIntegrity
High
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-281

Affected Products

Elastic DefendElastic NV
Mixed
Enterprise Software / itsm-monitoring
KibanaElasticDatabases
elastic nvcommercialUSEnterprise Softwareaka elastic
elasticcommercialUSDatabasesaka elasticsearch co., elastic.co

Attack Graph

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique
Privilege Escalation
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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
discuss.elastic.co

Timeline

Published
Nov 6, 2025
Last Updated
Nov 6, 2025

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