GHSA-gphj-4h6p-37xq

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Elasticsearch privileged authenticated users can cause DoS through Excessive Resource Allocation

view advisory published 2025-12-19Licence: CC-BY-4.0

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-2025-37/384185WEB
https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearchPACKAGE
https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/138132WEB
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68390ADVISORY

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