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.
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-defend-8-19-6-9-1-6-and-9-2-0-security-update-esa-2025-23/383272
Source: Mitre, NVD
Published: 2025-11-06
Updated: 2026-04-15
Base Score: 6
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Severity: Medium
Base Score: 7
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity: High
EPSS: 0.0001