Vulnerability Report

CVE-2025-68388

Title: Elasticsearch Packetbeat RCE

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2025-68388.

CWE Category CWE-770

Published Date Dec 18, 2025

Modified Date Dec 23, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.3 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.31%

Vulnerability Summary

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 and CPU via the integration of malicious IPv4 fragments, leading to a degradation in Packetbeat.

Impacted Vendors

elasticsearch 1

Reference Links

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/packetbeat-8-19-9-9-1-9-and-9-2-3-security-update-esa-2025-29/384177

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2025-68388 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

December 23, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 23, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

December 18, 2025 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.