CVE-2025-37728: Kibana Insufficiently Protected Credentials in the CrowdStrike Connector

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-10-07 · updated 2026-10-08
Weakness: CWE-522

Description

Insufficiently Protected Credentials in the Crowdstrike connector can lead to Crowdstrike credentials being leaked. A malicious user can access cached credentials from a Crowdstrike connector in another space by creating and running a Crowdstrike connector in a space to which they have access.

Affected products

Kibana: from 7.0.0 through 7.17.29; from 8.14.0 through 8.18.7; from 8.19.0 through 8.19.4; from 9.0.0 through 9.0.7; from 9.1.0 through 9.1.4

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-crowdstrike-connector-8-18-8-8-19-5-9-0-8-and-9-1-5-security-update-esa-2025-19/382455
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-crowdstrike-connector-8-18-8-8-19-5-9-0-8-and-9-1-5-security-update-esa-2025-19/382455

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