CVE-2025-68388
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.13%Elasticsearch Packetbeat has Excessive Allocation of Memory and CPU via Malicious IPv4 Fragments in github.com/elastic/beats
Published: 12/19/2025Modified: 2/4/2026
Description
Elasticsearch Packetbeat has Excessive Allocation of Memory and CPU via Malicious IPv4 Fragments in github.com/elastic/beats
Affected packages (4)
- Go/github.com/elastic/beats>= 8.6.0, < 8.19.9
- Go/github.com/elastic/beatsfrom 0
- Go/github.com/elastic/beats/v7from 0, < 7.0.0-alpha2.0.20251209162832-28cfc80d2f4e
- Go/github.com/elastic/beats/v7from 0, < 7.0.0-alpha2.0.20251209162832-28cfc80d2f4e
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References (5)
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fj69-23m4-ccvv
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68388
- PATCHhttps://github.com/elastic/beats
- WEBhttps://discuss.elastic.co/t/packetbeat-8-19-9-9-1-9-and-9-2-3-security-update-esa-2025-29/384177
- WEBhttps://github.com/elastic/beats/commit/28cfc80d2f4e80bfd1c72eb3f849d777751ab870