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}
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-37736 is rated Moderate Risk (40.7/100): CVSS High severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.05%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.
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EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2025-12-09 | 0.04% | 0.05% | +0.01% |
| 2 | 2025-11-08 | — | 0.04% | — |
Full EPSS history (2 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.8 | 3.1 | HIGH |
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2.8 | 5.9 | [email protected] |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| elastic | elastic_cloud_enterprise | >= 3.8.0, < 3.8.3 | cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elastic_cloud_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| elastic | elastic_cloud_enterprise | >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.3 | cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elastic_cloud_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |