CVE-2025-68390

Elasticsearch Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

State: Published
Severity: 4.9 Medium
Published: Dec 18, 2025
Updated: Dec 19, 2025
Reserved: Dec 16, 2025

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.9 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	elastic

Weaknesses

CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Affected Products

Product	Versions
ElasticsearchElastic	7.0.0 through 7.17.29Affected 8.0.0 through 8.19.7Affected 9.0.0 through 9.1.7Affected 9.2.0 through 9.2.1Affected

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-19-8-9-1-8-and-9-2-2-security-update-esa-2025-37/384185

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