CVE-2025-68384CWE-770denial-of-service

CVE-2025-68384

Medium · published December 19, 2025

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
24.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Elasticsearch can allow a low-privileged authenticated user to cause Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130) causing a persistent denial of service (OOM crash) via submission of oversized user settings data.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00323 · 24.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2025-12-19T03:16Z
Affected products (4)
ProductVersionsFixed in
elastic/elasticsearch≥ 7.0.0, ≤ 7.17.29—
elastic/elasticsearch≥ 8.0.0, < 8.19.98.19.9
elastic/elasticsearch≥ 9.0.0, < 9.1.99.1.9
elastic/elasticsearch≥ 9.2.0, < 9.2.39.2.3
References (1)
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-19-9-9-1-9-and-9-2-3-security-update-esa-2025-33/384181 · [email protected]
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 DEC 22:04Z
    Elasticsearch Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
    cvelistv5