elastic/elasticsearch · Security
Elasticsearch has Excessive Allocation of Resources via Submission of Oversized User Settings Data
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-qf7c-7r9h-mm92
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-68384
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 6.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 6.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.
CWEs
- CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68384 ↗
- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-19-9-9-1-9-and-9-2-3-security-update-esa-2025-33/384181 ↗
- https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/138691 ↗
- https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/ab1d99ae033f2a23a8856b47a2d86652ad63a39a ↗
- https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/b46a4f64baea79c4d3afd58bda39d258de97210a ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qf7c-7r9h-mm92 ↗