CVE-2025-68384

MEDIUM

Elasticsearch < 7.17.29 - Resource Allocation Without Limits

Title source: rule

Description

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.

References (1)

[Vendor Advisory] https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-19-9-9-1-9-and-9-2-3-security-update-esa-2025-33/384181

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0006

EPSS Percentile 17.5%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-770

Status published

Affected Products (2)

elastic/elasticsearch < 7.17.29

org.elasticsearch.plugin/x-pack-security < 8.19.9Maven

Timeline

Published Dec 18, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026