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CVE-2025-37735

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.

Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H · CWE-281

Tracked companies

Elastic Cloud

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Status incidents that name it

No tracked status incident names this CVE.

Affected vendors and products

Elastic: Kibana

References

• CVE record on cve.org (opens in new tab)
• NVD entry (opens in new tab)
• discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-defend-8-19-6-9-1-6-and-9-2-0-security-update-esa-2025-23/3… (opens in new tab)

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