CVE-2025-37735

EUVD-2025-37984
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.
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
elasticCNA
7 HIGH
LOCAL
HIGH
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: Unknown
Early Detection
Affected products identified ahead of NVD analysis through intelligence sources.
VendorProductVersionSource
elastickibana
8.0.0 ≤
𝑥
≤ 8.19.5
CNA
elastickibana
9.0.0 ≤
𝑥
≤ 9.1.5
CNA
Common Weakness Enumeration
References
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-defend-8-19-6-9-1-6-and-9-2-0-security-update-esa-2025-23/383272