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CVE-2025-68388

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Date: December 18, 2025

Allocation of resources without limits or throttling (CWE-770) allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause excessive allocation (CAPEC-130) of memory and CPU via the integration of malicious IPv4 fragments, leading to a degradation in Packetbeat.

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Related Resources (5)

https://github.com/elastic/beats/commit/28cfc80d2f4e80bfd1c72eb3f849d777751ab870
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68388
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/packetbeat-8-19-9-9-1-9-and-9-2-3-security-update-esa-2025-29/384177
https://github.com/elastic/beats
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2025-68388

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

CWE-770

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Upgrade to version github.com/elastic/beats - v8.19.9;github.com/elastic/beats - v9.1.9;github.com/elastic/beats - v9.2.3;github.com/elastic/beats/v7 - v7.0.0-alpha2.0.20251209162832-28cfc80d2f4e;https://github.com/elastic/beats.git - v9.2.3;https://github.com/elastic/beats.git - v8.19.9;https://github.com/elastic/beats.git - v9.1.9

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): LOW

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