CVE-2025-68384

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.

CVSS v3 6.5 MEDIUM

6.5^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

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

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

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History

30 Sep 2026, 23:10

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Summary		(es) Asignación de recursos sin límites ni limitación (CWE-770) en Elasticsearch puede permitir que un usuario autenticado con bajos privilegios cause una asignación excesiva (CAPEC-130), provocando una denegación de servicio persistente (fallo por OOM) mediante el envío de datos de configuración de usuario de tamaño excesivo.

Information

Published : 2025-12-18 22:16

Updated : 2026-09-30 23:10

NVD link : CVE-2025-68384

Mitre link : CVE-2025-68384

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-68384

JSON object : View

Products Affected

elastic

elasticsearch

CWE

CWE-770

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

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