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TI-2025-18691 Aliases CVE-2025-25013GHSA-p999-j4hq-pmj3

Elastic Defend Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log Files

Priority LOW 29CWE-532Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Information disclosure
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · None · None
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-532.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00371 31st percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Elastic Defend (Elastic): 8.17.3

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
ElasticElastic Defend8.0.0 to before 8.17.38.17.3Patch availableCNA
  • Elastic Defend VendorElastic Affected 8.0.0 to before 8.17.3 Fixed in 8.17.3 Patch available CNA

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA Elastic Defend (Elastic) Fixed in 8.17.3

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-25013
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-p999-j4hq-pmj3

References

Other 1

  • TI-2019-05363 Code injection in Elastic Kibana KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
  • TI-2015-01295 The Groovy scripting engine in Elasticsearch before 1.3.8 and 1.4.x before 1.4.3 allows… KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2014-02491 The default configuration in Elasticsearch before 1.2 enables dynamic scripting, which… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
  • TI-2018-12328 Kibana versions before 6.4.3 and 5.6.13 contain an arbitrary file inclusion flaw in the… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2023-15037 Elasticsearch StackOverflow vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2021-05135 Information disclosure in Elasticsearch CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
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Sources

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