CVE-2025-68384

MEDIUM6.5EPSS 0.10%

Elasticsearch Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Published: 12/19/2025Modified: 12/20/2025

Also known as:GHSA-qf7c-7r9h-mm92BIT-elasticsearch-2025-68384

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.

Affected packages (2)

Bitnami/elasticsearchfrom 0, < 8.19.9, >= 9.0.0, < 9.1.9, >= 9.2.0, < 9.2.3
Maven/org.elasticsearch.plugin:x-pack-securityfrom 0, < 8.19.9

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (6)

ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68384
PATCHhttps://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch
WEBhttps://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-19-9-9-1-9-and-9-2-3-security-update-esa-2025-33/384181
WEBhttps://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/ab1d99ae033f2a23a8856b47a2d86652ad63a39a
WEBhttps://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/b46a4f64baea79c4d3afd58bda39d258de97210a
WEBhttps://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/138691