How severe is CVE-2025-68384?

CVE-2025-68384 has a CVSS v3 score of 6.5 (MEDIUM).

CVE-2025-68384

Name: elasticsearch
Author: elastic

6.5MEDIUM

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Elasticsearch can allow a low-privileged authenticated user to cause Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130) causing a persistent denial of s

Published: 12/18/2025Updated: 12/23/2025

Description

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Elasticsearch can allow a low-privileged authenticated user to cause Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130) causing a persistent denial of service (OOM crash) via submission of oversized user settings data.

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Affected Products

elasticelasticsearch

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-19-9-9-1-9-and-9-2-3-security-update-esa-2025-33/384181
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