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CVE

CVE-2025-68388

Elasticsearch Packetbeat has Excessive Allocation of Memory and CPU via Malicious IPv4 Fragments
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CVE

CVE-2025-68388

Elasticsearch Packetbeat has Excessive Allocation of Memory and CPU via Malicious IPv4 Fragments

Allocation of resources without limits or throttling (CWE-770) allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause excessive allocation (CAPEC-130) of memory and CPU via the integration of malicious IPv4 fragments, leading to denial-of-service in Packetbeat.

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CVSS Version

Severity
Base Score
CVSS Version
Score Vector
C
H
U
5.3
-
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
C
H
U
0
-
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
C
H
U
-

Related Resources

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68388, https://github.com/elastic/beats/commit/28cfc80d2f4e80bfd1c72eb3f849d777751ab870, https://discuss.elastic.co/t/packetbeat-8-19-9-9-1-9-and-9-2-3-security-update-esa-2025-29/384177, https://github.com/elastic/beats

Severity

7.5

CVSS Score
0
10

Basic Information

Ecosystem
Base CVSS
7.5
EPSS Probability
0.00123%
EPSS Percentile
0.32133%
Introduced Version
8.6.0,9.0.0,9.2.0,0
Fix Available
8.19.9,9.1.9,9.2.3,7.0.0-alpha2.0.20251209162832-28cfc80d2f4e

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