How severe is CVE-2025-68390?

CVE-2025-68390 has a CVSS v3 score of 4.9 (MEDIUM).

CVE-2025-68390

Name: elasticsearch
Author: elastic

4.9MEDIUM

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Elasticsearch can allow an authenticated user with snapshot restore privileges to cause Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130) of memory and

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

Description

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Elasticsearch can allow an authenticated user with snapshot restore privileges to cause Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130) of memory and a denial of service (DoS) via crafted HTTP request.

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Affected Products

elasticelasticsearch

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-19-8-9-1-8-and-9-2-2-security-update-esa-2025-37/384185
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