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CVE-2025-68388

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-68388 is a resource allocation vulnerability (CWE-770) affecting Elasticsearch Packetbeat, allowing an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause a denial of service. By sending malicious IPv4 fragments, an attacker can trigger excessive memory and CPU consumption, degrading Packetbeat's performance. Rated Medium (CVSS 5.3), this vulnerability requires no user interaction and has a low impact on availability. There is currently no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 8.6.0, <= 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 8.6.0, < 8.19.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elasticsearch:packetbeat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 9.0.0, < 9.1.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elasticsearch:packetbeat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
23.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0031 is in the 13th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/elastic/beatsFixed in: 8.19.9
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/elastic/beatsFixed in: 9.1.9
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/elastic/beatsFixed in: 9.2.3
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/elastic/beats/v7Fixed in: 7.0.0-alpha2.0.20251209162832-28cfc80d2f4e

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-fj69-23m4-ccvvhigh

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

Dec 19, 2025

References

discuss.elastic.co / t/packetbeat-8-19-9-9-1-9-and-9-2-3-security-update-esa-2025-29/384177
Vendor Advisory