BIT-elasticsearch-2025-68384

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Elasticsearch Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

view advisory published 2025-12-20Licence: per source

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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Related CVEs.

ID	severity	EPSS	exploitable	published
CVE-2025-68384US	—	0.32% (25th)	—	2025-12-18
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 pe…

references

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-19-9-9-1-9-and-9-2-3-security-update-esa-2025-33/384181ADVISORY
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68384WEB

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