CVE-2025-37736: Elastic Cloud Enterprise

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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}

Affected products

• Elastic Elastic Cloud Enterprise: from 3.8.0, before 3.8.3 (fixed in 3.8.3); from 4.0.0, before 4.0.3 (fixed in 4.0.3)

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