Vulnerability · Published Apr 8, 2025 · Assigned by elastic

CVE-2025-25013Elastic Defend Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log Files

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity sensitive data in logs in Elastic Defend from Elastic. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 31% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 68.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Improper restriction of environment variables in Elastic Defend can lead to exposure of sensitive information such as API keys and tokens via automatic transmission of unfiltered environment variables to the stack.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Elastic Elastic Defend 8.0.0 – before 8.17.3

Weakness: CWE-532 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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