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CVE-2025-68388
Allocation of resources without limits or throttling (CWE-770) allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause excessive allocation…
Medium5.3EPSS 0.41%
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- elastic
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| elasticCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.41% · top 64% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected 8.6.0 – ≤ 8.19.8
- affected 9.0.0 – ≤ 9.1.8
- affected 9.2.0 – ≤ 9.2.2
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/elastic/beatsGHSA-fj69-23m4-ccvv (opens in a new tab)
- Gogithub.com/elastic/beats/v7GHSA-fj69-23m4-ccvv (opens in a new tab)
References (1)
Sources
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- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-fj69-23m4-ccvv (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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