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
Product
Action
Vendor
Elastic
Product
Defend
Elastic
Defend
Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Windows
Microsoft
Windows
Exploits
No exploit reference
Common Weakness Enumeration
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
