# CVE-2025-37728: Kibana Insufficiently Protected Credentials in the CrowdStrike Connector

> A malicious user can leak CrowdStrike credentials by accessing cached connector data from another Kibana space.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 7 Oct 2025
- **Updated:** 7 Oct 2025
- **Also known as:** BIT-elk-2025-37728, BIT-kibana-2025-37728, GHSA-58ch-j8rc-9wfq, MINI-4ff4-rj77-cx37, MINI-f36r-m38p-hqcq, MINI-px32-5fg3-4h57, MINI-qp8q-9mv9-vjw9, MINI-r464-cwv3-vj44

## What is CVE-2025-37728?

CVE-2025-37728 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, published on 7 Oct 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Insufficiently Protected Credentials in the Crowdstrike connector can lead to Crowdstrike credentials being leaked. A malicious user can access cached credentials from a Crowdstrike connector in another space by creating and running a Crowdstrike connector in a space to which they have access.

Weakness: CWE-522 (Insufficiently Protected Credentials)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-37728?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including kibana and elk.


| Package | Ecosystem | Affected | Fixed in |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `kibana` | Bitnami | All versions | 8.18.8, 8.19.5, 9.0.8, 9.1.5 |
| `elk` | Bitnami | All versions | 8.18.8, 8.19.5, 9.0.8, 9.1.5 |

## How do I fix CVE-2025-37728?

Upgrade kibana to a fixed version for your release line: 8.18.8, 8.19.5, 9.0.8 or 9.1.5.

## Is CVE-2025-37728 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-37728 exists.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-37728 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-37728 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, published on 7 Oct 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-37728 exists.

Affected packages and fixed versions:
- kibana (Bitnami): affected all versions; fixed in 8.18.8, 8.19.5, 9.0.8, 9.1.5
- elk (Bitnami): affected all versions; fixed in 8.18.8, 8.19.5, 9.0.8, 9.1.5

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-37728/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-37728/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-37728
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-37728
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-37728

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-37728/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.