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.
Scores
CVSS v3
7.0
EPSS
0.0001
EPSS Percentile
1.3%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-281
Status
published
Products (2)
Elastic/Kibana
8.0.0 - 8.19.5
Elastic/Kibana
9.0.0 - 9.1.5
Published
Nov 06, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026