# CVE-2025-37735

> CVE-2025-37735. CVSS 7.0 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-37735
Last updated: 2026-10-07T21:10:00Z

- Published: 2025-11-06 14:27 UTC · Updated: 2026-10-07 21:10 UTC · Assigner: elastic
- CVSS: 7.0 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: High · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS: 0.14%, 3th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-281

## 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 vendors and products

- Elastic: Kibana

## Tracked companies

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

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-37735)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-37735)
- [https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-defend-8-19-6-9-1-6-and-9-2-0-security-update-esa-2025-23/383272](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-defend-8-19-6-9-1-6-and-9-2-0-security-update-esa-2025-23/383272)

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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-37735 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-37735.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2025-37735 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T04:03:29.081Z