- Description
- Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Elasticsearch can allow a low-privileged authenticated user to cause Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130) causing a persistent denial of service (OOM crash) via submission of oversized user settings data.
- Source
- security@elastic.co
- NVD status
- Analyzed
- Products
- elasticsearch
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Secondary
- Base score
- 6.5
- Impact score
- 3.6
- Exploitability score
- 2.8
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- security@elastic.co
- CWE-770
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
CVE-2025-68384 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Elasticsearch can allow a low-privileged authenticated user to cause Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130… https://t.co/L0xhi6JQXl
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19 Dec 2025
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CVE-2025-68384 Elasticsearch Resource Exhaustion Vulnerability Enables Persistent Denial of Service https://t.co/fdab0IGYUv
@VulmonFeeds
19 Dec 2025
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