BIT-elasticsearch-2025-68390

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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 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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Related CVEs.

ID	severity	EPSS	exploitable	published
CVE-2025-68390US	—	0.38% (32nd)	—	2025-12-18
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Elasticsearch can allow an authenticated user with snapshot restore privileges to cause Excessive Allocation (CAPE…

references

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-19-8-9-1-8-and-9-2-2-security-update-esa-2025-37/384185ADVISORY
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68390WEB

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