CVE-2025-37735
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.
SeverityHigh
CVSS7.0
Exploit probability—
Product
Kibana
PublishedNov 6, 2025
First seenNov 6, 2025
Weakness typeCWE-281CWE-281
How to fix
Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.
Affected products
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Elastic Kibana | 8.0.0 ≤ v ≤ 8.19.5, 9.0.0 ≤ v ≤ 9.1.5 | — |
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