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CVE-2025-37735
Published: Nov 6, 2025
Modified: Feb 26, 2026
PUBLISHED
CVSS v3.1
7.0
HIGH
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Elastic | Kibana | affected 8.0.0 - <= 8.19.5affected 9.0.0 - <= 9.1.5 |
Weaknesses (CWE)
CVSS v3.1 Details
CVSS v3.1 Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
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