elastic/elasticsearch · Security
Elasticsearch privileged authenticated users can cause DoS through Excessive Resource Allocation
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-gphj-4h6p-37xq
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-68390
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 4.9 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 4.9 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.
CWEs
- CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling