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CVE-2025-68390

4.9 mediumEPSS 0.4%

Medium (4.9) in elastic elasticsearch. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in org.elasticsearch.plugin:x-pack-core 8.19.8, 9.1.8, 9.2.2.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

4.9 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 31% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-770
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-gphj-4h6p-37xqMavenorg.elasticsearch.plugin:x-pack-core<8.19.88.19.8
GHSA-gphj-4h6p-37xqMavenorg.elasticsearch.plugin:x-pack-core>=9.0.0 <9.1.89.1.8
GHSA-gphj-4h6p-37xqMavenorg.elasticsearch.plugin:x-pack-core>=9.2.0 <9.2.29.2.2

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