CVE-2025-37736 Elastic Cloud Enterprise Improper Authorization
A readonly user can improperly access sensitive APIs to modify users and service accounts, leading to privilege escalation in Elastic Cloud Enterprise.
- 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-2025-37736?
CVE-2025-37736 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE), published on 7 Nov 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Improper Authorization in Elastic Cloud Enterprise can lead to Privilege Escalation where the built-in readonly user can call APIs that should not be allowed. The list of APIs that are affected by this issue is:
post:/platform/configuration/security/service-accounts delete:/platform/configuration/security/service-accounts/{user_id} patch:/platform/configuration/security/service-accounts/{user_id} post:/platform/configuration/security/service-accounts/{user_id}/keys delete:/platform/configuration/security/service-accounts/{user_id}/keys/{api_key_id} patch:/user post:/users post:/users/auth/keys delete:/users/auth/keys delete:/users/auth/keys/_all delete:/users/auth/keys/{api_key_id} delete:/users/{user_id}/auth/keys delete:/users/{user_id}/auth/keys/{api_key_id} delete:/users/{user_name} patch:/users/{user_name}
Weakness: CWE-863
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-37736?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Elastic Elastic Cloud Enterprise.
How do I fix CVE-2025-37736?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-37736 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2025-37736 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-37736 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE)
- CVE-2025-37729 Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) Improper Neutralization of Special Elements Used in a Template Engine
- CVE-2024-37282 Privilege escalation in Elastic Cloud Enterprise
- CVE-2023-31418 Elasticsearch uncontrolled resource consumption
- CVE-2018-3828 Information disclosure in Elastic Cloud Enterprise
- CVE-2022-23715 Information disclosure in Elastic Cloud Enterprise
Sources
Also known as GHSA-5p88-6546-29fh.