6.5

CVE-2025-25013: elastic elastic defend

CVSS: 6.5v3.1MediumDeferred
Published 08-04-2025Last modified 09-04-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-25013 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability in elastic elastic defend. EPSS estimates a 0.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 28.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
26/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.36%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 08-04-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 09-04-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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 metrics

2 scores · 2 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.36%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

29%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.01 pp

From 0.36% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.36%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Elastic1 product

1 vendor · 1 product

References

1 links