CVE-2025-25013: Elastic Defend

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Elastic Elastic Defend: from 8.0.0, before 8.17.3 (fixed in 8.17.3)

Published 2025-04-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.