CVE-2025-37735: Elastic Kibana

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Elastic Kibana: from 8.0.0, up to and including 8.19.5; from 9.0.0, up to and including 9.1.5

Published 2025-11-06. Last modified 2026-10-07.