CVE-2025-68388

HIGH7.5EPSS 0.13%

Elasticsearch Packetbeat has Excessive Allocation of Memory and CPU via Malicious IPv4 Fragments

Published: 12/19/2025Modified: 2/4/2026

Also known as:GHSA-fj69-23m4-ccvvCGA-fmhx-hqww-2wxfGO-2025-4253

Description

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 denial-of-service in Packetbeat.

Affected packages (4)

Go/github.com/elastic/beats>= 8.6.0, < 8.19.9
Go/github.com/elastic/beatsfrom 0
Go/github.com/elastic/beats/v7from 0, < 7.0.0-alpha2.0.20251209162832-28cfc80d2f4e
Go/github.com/elastic/beats/v7from 0, < 7.0.0-alpha2.0.20251209162832-28cfc80d2f4e

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (5)

ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fj69-23m4-ccvv
ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68388
PATCHhttps://github.com/elastic/beats
WEBhttps://discuss.elastic.co/t/packetbeat-8-19-9-9-1-9-and-9-2-3-security-update-esa-2025-29/384177
WEBhttps://github.com/elastic/beats/commit/28cfc80d2f4e80bfd1c72eb3f849d777751ab870