UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68384

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-68384
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2025/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68384.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68384
Upstream
Published
2025-12-18T22:16:00Z
Modified
2025-12-26T08:53:59.861043Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / elasticsearch

Package

Name
elasticsearch
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/elasticsearch@1.7.3+dfsg-3?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*
1.6.2+dfsg-1
1.7.3+dfsg-1
1.7.3+dfsg-2
1.7.3+dfsg-3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "elasticsearch",
            "binary_version": "1.7.3+dfsg-3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libelasticsearch1.7-java",
            "binary_version": "1.7.3+dfsg-3"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2025/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68384.json"