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…

PriorityP336high7CVSS 3.1

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EPSS

0.13%

3.1th percentile

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.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
elastic	kibana	8.0.0 – 8.19.5	—
elastic	kibana	9.0.0 – 9.1.5	—

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