CVE-2025-68390

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.

References

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

Affected packages

Git / github.com/elastic/elasticsearch

Affected ranges

Type: GIT
Repo: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch
Events: Introduced

1b6a7ece17463df5ff54a3e1302d825889aa1161

Fixed

e34ace04b64e9bfa3f9e785b08e6d81f8efe314b

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-68390.json"

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