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

6.5 CVSS

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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-25013

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 6.5

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Problem Types

CWE-532 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Affected Products

Vendor: Elastic

Product: Elastic Defend

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.03% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 8.61% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-21 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-25013
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-defend-8-17-3-security-update-esa-2025-05/376921

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