CVE-2025-68384

published 2025-12-18

CVE-2025-68384: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Elasticsearch can allow a low-privileged authenticated user to cause Excessive Allocation…

Priority P4 31 medium 6.5 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR L UI N S U C N I N A H

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.

Affected

9 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
elastic	elasticsearch	7.0.0 – 7.17.29	—
elastic	elasticsearch	>= 8.0.0 < 8.19.9	8.19.9
elastic	elasticsearch	8.0.0 – 8.19.8	—
elastic	elasticsearch	>= 9.0.0 < 9.1.9	9.1.9
elastic	elasticsearch	9.0.0 – 9.1.8	—
elastic	elasticsearch	>= 9.2.0 < 9.2.3	9.2.3
elastic	elasticsearch	9.2.0 – 9.2.2	—
msrc	azl3_rubygem-elasticsearch_8.9.0-1_on_azure_linux_3.0	—	—
msrc	cbl2_rubygem-elasticsearch_8.3.0-1_on_cbl_mariner_2.0	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 6.5 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

osv 6.5 MEDIUM

vendor_msrc 6.5 MEDIUM

vendor_redhat 6.5 MEDIUM

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CWE-770