CVE-2025-37735 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

No EPSS score available.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

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Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-defend-8-19-6-9-1-6-and-9-2-0-security-update-esa-2025-23/383272

History

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 14:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
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.
Weaknesses		CWE-281
References		https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-defend-8-19-6-9-1-6-and-9-2-0-security-update-esa-2025-23/383272
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 7, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: elastic

Published: 2025-11-06T14:27:26.235Z

Updated: 2025-11-06T14:42:11.248Z

Reserved: 2025-04-16T03:24:04.511Z

Link: CVE-2025-37735

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-11-06T14:41:54.961Z

NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-11-06T15:15:46.640

Modified: 2025-11-06T15:15:46.640

Link: CVE-2025-37735

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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