CVE-2025-37735 Privilege escalation in Kibana
Local attackers can delete arbitrary files via Elastic Defend on Windows, potentially leading to privilege escalation.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-37735?
CVE-2025-37735 is a high-severity vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, published on 6 Nov 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-37735?
How do I fix CVE-2025-37735?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-37735 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-37735 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-37735 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-j5h3-g7ch-42qf.