CVE-2025-68388

published 2025-12-18

CVE-2025-68388: Allocation of resources without limits or throttling (CWE-770) allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause excessive allocation (CAPEC-130) of memory…

Priority P4 32 medium 5.3 CVSS 3.1

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

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 a degradation in Packetbeat.

Affected

10 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
elastic	packetbeat	8.6.0 – 8.19.8	—
elastic	packetbeat	9.0.0 – 9.1.8	—
elastic	packetbeat	9.2.0 – 9.2.2	—
elasticsearch	packetbeat	>= 8.6.0 < 8.19.9	8.19.9
elasticsearch	packetbeat	>= 9.0.0 < 9.1.9	9.1.9
elasticsearch	packetbeat	>= 9.2.0 < 9.2.3	9.2.3
github.com	elastic_beats	>= 8.6.0 < 8.19.9	8.19.9
github.com	elastic_beats	>= 9.0.0 < 9.1.9	9.1.9
github.com	elastic_beats	>= 9.2.0 < 9.2.3	9.2.3
github.com	elastic_beats_v7	>= 0 < 7.0.0-alpha2.0.20251209162832-28cfc80d2f4e	7.0.0-alpha2.0.20251209162832-28cfc80d2f4e

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CWE-770