# CVE-2025-37735

## Summary

- **CVE ID:** CVE-2025-37735
- **Severity:** HIGH
- **CVSS Score:** 7 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
- **CWE:** CWE-281
- **Published:** Nov 6, 2025
- **Last Modified:** Mar 13, 2026

## 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.

## Affected Products

- Elastic — Kibana (8.0.0)
- Elastic — Kibana (9.0.0)

## References

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

## Exploitation Prediction (EPSS)

- **EPSS Score:** 0.13%
- **EPSS Percentile:** 3.1

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_Exported from OnDuty AI Vulnerability Intelligence on 2026-09-11._