CVE 8.8 HIGH

Elastic Cloud Enterprise Improper Authorization_CVE-2025-37736

November 8, 2025 invoker category_cve

8.8 / 10

HIGH

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

Description

Improper Authorization in Elastic Cloud Enterprise can lead to Privilege Escalation where the built-in readonly user can call APIs that should not be allowed. The list of APIs that are affected by this issue is:

post:/platform/configuration/security/service-accounts
delete:/platform/configuration/security/service-accounts/{user_id}
patch:/platform/configuration/security/service-accounts/{user_id}
post:/platform/configuration/security/service-accounts/{user_id}/keys
delete:/platform/configuration/security/service-accounts/{user_id}/keys/{api_key_id}
patch:/user
post:/users
post:/users/auth/keys
delete:/users/auth/keys
delete:/users/auth/keys/_all
delete:/users/auth/keys/{api_key_id}
delete:/users/{user_id}/auth/keys
delete:/users/{user_id}/auth/keys/{api_key_id}
delete:/users/{user_name}
patch:/users/{user_name}

AI Analysis

Improper Authorization vulnerability allowing Privilege Escalation in Elastic Cloud Enterprise

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-37736

Source elastic

Published Nov 7, 2025 at 22:08

Modified Nov 7, 2025 at 22:17

Affected Product

Vendor Elastic

Product Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE)

Version 3.8.0, 4.0.0

Affected Versions Elastic Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) 3.8.0
Elastic Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) 4.0.0

CWE Classification

CWE-863

AI Assessment

AI Score 8.8 / 10

AI Severity High

Vendor Elastic

Product Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE)

Version 3.8.0, 4.0.0

References

discuss.elastic.co /t/elastic-cloud-enterprise-ece-3-8-3-and-4-0-3-security-update-esa-2025-22/383132

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