# CVE-2025-25013: Elastic Defend Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log Files

> CVE-2025-25013: Elastic Defend Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log Files. CVSS 6.5 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-25013
Last updated: 2026-06-17T08:59:59Z

- Published: 2025-04-08 22:16 UTC · Updated: 2026-06-17 08:59 UTC · Assigner: elastic
- CVSS: 6.5 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: Medium · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS: 0.36%, 30th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-532

## Description

Improper restriction of environment variables in Elastic Defend can lead to exposure of sensitive information such as API keys and tokens via automatic transmission of unfiltered environment variables to the stack.

## Affected vendors and products

- Elastic: Elastic Defend

## Tracked companies

- [Elastic Cloud](https://rewindex.com/company/elastic-cloud.md)

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-25013)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-25013)
- [https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-defend-8-17-3-security-update-esa-2025-05/376921](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-defend-8-17-3-security-update-esa-2025-05/376921)

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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-25013 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-25013.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2025-25013 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T02:11:21.888Z