Security Advisory
CVE-2025-37736
8.8
HIGH
Vulnerability 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}
Published Date
November 7, 2025
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory