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CVE-2025-68381

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-68381 describes an Improper Bounds Check (CWE-787) vulnerability in Packetbeat, allowing a remote, unauthenticated attacker to trigger a buffer overflow by sending a specially crafted UDP packet with an invalid fragment sequence number. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), indicating it can be exploited with low attack complexity over an adjacent network, leading to high availability impact such as application crashes or resource exhaustion. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, suggesting it is not widely known or exploited in the wild.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 7.0.0, <= 7.17.29CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:elasticsearch:packetbeat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 8.0.0, <= 8.19.8CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:elasticsearch:packetbeat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 9.0.0, <= 9.1.8CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:elasticsearch:packetbeat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 9.2.0, <= 9.2.2CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:elasticsearch:packetbeat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 8.0.0, < 8.19.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elasticsearch:packetbeat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
33.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0041 is in the 50th percentile among its peer group of 1,802 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

discuss.elastic.co / t/packetbeat-8-19-9-9-1-9-and-9-2-3-security-update-esa-2025-30/384178
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