What is CVE-2025-68382?

CVE-2025-68382 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Packetbeat, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-12-18.

How severe is CVE-2025-68382?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Out-of-bounds Read in Elastic Packetbeat

CVE-2025-68382

Out-of-bounds read (CWE-125) allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to perform a buffer overflow (CAPEC-100) via the NFS protocol dissector, leading to a denial-of-service (DoS) through a reliable process crash when handling truncated XDR-encoded RPC messages.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.002 (11.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Elastic Packetbeat — versions 7.0.0, 8.0.0, 9.0.0
Elasticsearch Packetbeat

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

security@elastic.co (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-68382?: CVE-2025-68382 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Packetbeat, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-12-18.
How severe is CVE-2025-68382?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.