CVE-2025-37735

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CVSS 3.1

7.0 high

EPSS

<1%p3

Published

Nov 6, 2025 (Nov 6, 2025)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Weakness: CWE-281
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.1%)

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