Medium 5.3Published Dec 18, 2025

CVE-2025-68388Allocation 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 I…

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 2:50 AM ET)

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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.

CVSS: 5.3 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weakness (CWE): CWE-770
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: elastic
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Dec 19, 2025
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Elastic Packetbeat elastic:packetbeat (from the name)	from 8.6.0 through 8.19.8; from 9.0.0 through 9.1.8; from 9.2.0 through 9.2.2	CNA record
elasticsearch packetbeat elasticsearch:packetbeat	from 8.6.0 before 8.19.9; from 9.0.0 before 9.1.9; from 9.2.0 before 9.2.3	NVD

References

References

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

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