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CVE record · CVE-2025-37735

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.

CVSS 7.0 HighEPSS 0.0014 · 3rd percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: elastic) at 6 Nov 2025, 14:27 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Elastic Kibana
  • affected 8.0.0 to 8.19.5, inclusive semver
  • affected 9.0.0 to 9.1.5, inclusive semver
Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2025-37735
CNA
elastic
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-281
Tags
Published
6 Nov 2025
Updated
26 Feb 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.0 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (elastic)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0014, the 3rd percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 6 Nov 2025. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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