CVE-2025-68390 (GCVE-0-2025-68390)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-18 22:17
Modified
2025-12-19 15:36
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Summary
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Elasticsearch can allow an authenticated user with snapshot restore privileges to cause Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130) of memory and a denial of service (DoS) via crafted HTTP request.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elastic | Elasticsearch |
Version: 7.0.0 ≤ 7.17.29 Version: 8.0.0 ≤ 8.19.7 Version: 9.0.0 ≤ 9.1.7 Version: 9.2.0 ≤ 9.2.1 |
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