CVE-2025-37735

CVSS 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.

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-defend-8-19-6...

Weakness Types

CWE-281

CVE Information

CVE ID:: CVE-2025-37735
Published:: 2025-11-06
Modified:: 2025-11-06
CVSS Score:: 7.0
Severity:: HIGH
Vector:: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVSS Severity Scale

0.0 - 3.9 LOW

4.0 - 6.9 MEDIUM

7.0 - 8.9 HIGH

9.0 - 10.0 CRITICAL