CVE-2025-68381

Packetbeat Improper Bounds Check

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Dec 18, 2025
Updated: Dec 18, 2025
Reserved: Dec 16, 2025

Description

Improper Bounds Check (CWE-787) in Packetbeat can allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to exploit a Buffer Overflow (CAPEC-100) and reliably crash the application or cause significant resource exhaustion via a single crafted UDP packet with an invalid fragment sequence number.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	elastic

Weaknesses

CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

Affected Products

Product	Versions
PacketbeatElastic	7.0.0 through 7.17.29Affected 8.0.0 through 8.19.8Affected 9.0.0 through 9.1.8Affected 9.2.0 through 9.2.2Affected

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/packetbeat-8-19-9-9-1-9-and-9-2-3-security-update-esa-2025-30/384178

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