Medium severity · published Apr 8, 2025
CVE-2025-25013
Elastic Defend Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log Files
6.5
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 30% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
ED
Elastic Defend · Elastic
8.0.0 before 8.17.3 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-25013
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-25013
discuss.elastic.co
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-defend-8-17-3-security-update-esa-2025-05/376921
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