CVE-2025-68390Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Elasticsearch

Severity
4.9MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 60.40%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 18
Latest updateDec 19

Description

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Elasticsearch can allow an authenticated user with snapshot restore privileges to cause Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130) of memory and a denial of service (DoS) via crafted HTTP request.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.2 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

NVDelastic/elasticsearch8.0.08.19.8+3
CVEListV5elastic/elasticsearch8.0.08.19.7+3

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
OSV
Elasticsearch privileged authenticated users can cause DoS through Excessive Resource Allocation2025-12-19
GHSA
Elasticsearch privileged authenticated users can cause DoS through Excessive Resource Allocation2025-12-19
CVEList
Elasticsearch Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling2025-12-18
OSV
CVE-2025-68390: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Elasticsearch can allow an authenticated user with snapshot restore privileges to ca2025-12-18

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
elasticsearch: Elasticsearch Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling2025-12-18
Microsoft
Elasticsearch Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling2025-12-09

🕵️Threat Intelligence

1
Wiz
CVE-2025-68390 Impact, Exploitability, and Mitigation Steps | Wiz
CVE-2025-68390 — Elastic Elasticsearch vulnerability | cvebase