Resource exhaustion in Elasticsearch - CVE-2025-68384
Published: December 19, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU120208
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-68384
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when processing settings data. A remote low-privileged user can trigger memory exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Affected software
Elasticsearch
How to mitigate CVE-2025-68384
Install updates from vendor's website.
Elasticsearch - addressed in versions 8.19.9, 9.1.9, 9.2.3