CVE-2025-37735
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.
Scoring
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS base score
- 7
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS probability
- 0.13%
- CWE
- CWE-281
- Published
- 2025-11-06
- Last modified
- 2026-03-13
Affected products
- Elastic Kibana
- Elastic Kibana
Weakness type
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