SB2025122325 - Multiple DoS vulnerabilities in Elastic Packetbeat
Published: December 23, 2025
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 3 vulnerabilities.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-68388)
CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote attacker can send specially crafted IPv4 packets to trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
2) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-68381)
CWE-ID: CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds write
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing UDP packets. A remote attacker can send specially crafted UDP packets over the network, trigger an out-of-bounds write and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
3) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-68382)
CWE-ID: CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds read
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition within the NFS protocol dissector when handling truncated XDR-encoded RPC messages. A remote attacker can send specially crafted traffic over the network, trigger an out-of-bounds read error and perform a denial of service attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.