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.

INFO

Published Date :

2025-11-06T14:27:26.235Z

Last Modified :

2025-11-07T04:56:11.390Z

Source :

elastic
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-37735 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Elastic
  • Defend
Microsoft
  • Windows
REFERENCES

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URL Resource
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-defend-8-19-6-9-1-6-and-9-2-0-security-update-esa-2025-23/383272 cve-icon cve-icon
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