CVE-2025-25013 Elastic Defend Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log Files
Attackers can expose sensitive API keys and tokens by exploiting improper environment variable filtering in Elastic Defend logs.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-25013?
CVE-2025-25013 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Defend, published on 8 Apr 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Improper restriction of environment variables in Elastic Defend can lead to exposure of sensitive information such as API keys and tokens via automatic transmission of unfiltered environment variables to the stack.
Weakness: CWE-532
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-25013?
How do I fix CVE-2025-25013?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-25013 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-25013 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-25013 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-p999-j4hq-pmj3.