CVE-2025-68390

Published Dec 18, 2025

Last updated 3 months ago

Overview

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.
Source
security@elastic.co
NVD status
Analyzed
Products
elasticsearch

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
4.9
Impact score
3.6
Exploitability score
1.2
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity
MEDIUM

Weaknesses

security@elastic.co
CWE-770

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations