# CVE-2025-37736: Elastic Cloud Enterprise Improper Authorization

> CVE-2025-37736: Elastic Cloud Enterprise Improper Authorization. CVSS 8.8 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-37736
Last updated: 2026-10-07T21:10:00Z

- Published: 2025-11-07 22:08 UTC · Updated: 2026-10-07 21:10 UTC · Assigner: elastic
- CVSS: 8.8 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: High · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS: 0.40%, 34th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-863

## Description

Improper Authorization in Elastic Cloud Enterprise can lead to Privilege Escalation where the built-in readonly user can call APIs that should not be allowed. The list of APIs that are affected by this issue is: post:/platform/configuration/security/service-accounts delete:/platform/configuration/security/service-accounts/{user\_id} patch:/platform/configuration/security/service-accounts/{user\_id} post:/platform/configuration/security/service-accounts/{user\_id}/keys delete:/platform/configuration/security/service-accounts/{user\_id}/keys/{api\_key\_id} patch:/user post:/users post:/users/auth/keys delete:/users/auth/keys delete:/users/auth/keys/\_all delete:/users/auth/keys/{api\_key\_id} delete:/users/{user\_id}/auth/keys delete:/users/{user\_id}/auth/keys/{api\_key\_id} delete:/users/{user\_name} patch:/users/{user\_name}

## Affected vendors and products

- Elastic: Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE)

## Tracked companies

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

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-37736)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-37736)
- [https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-enterprise-ece-3-8-3-and-4-0-3-security-update-esa-2025-22/383132](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-enterprise-ece-3-8-3-and-4-0-3-security-update-esa-2025-22/383132)

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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-37736 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-37736.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2025-37736 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T03:10:08.128Z