CVE-2025-68384 (GCVE-0-2025-68384)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-18 22:04 – Updated: 2025-12-19 15:19
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Elasticsearch Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Summary
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-12-19 15:19 UTC
CWE
- CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elastic | Elasticsearch |
Affected:
7.0.0 , ≤ 7.17.29
(semver)
Affected: 8.0.0 , ≤ 8.19.8 (semver) Affected: 9.0.0 , ≤ 9.1.8 (semver) Affected: 9.2.0 , ≤ 9.2.2 (semver) |
guessed |
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