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    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. In some cases, this could result in local privilege escalation.

    Published:Nov 6, 2025
    Last Modified:Apr 15, 2026
    EPS:Nov 6, 2025
    EPSS Score:0.0001
    CVSS Score:7

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Elastic
    Product
    Defend
    Vendor
    Microsoft
    Product
    Windows

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High