What is CVE-2025-68384?

CVE-2025-68384 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-12-18.

How severe is CVE-2025-68384?

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

Resource exhaustion in Elastic Elasticsearch

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) causing a persistent denial of service (OOM crash) via submission of ov…

EPSS: 0.001 (27.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

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

Affected products

Elastic Elasticsearch — versions 7.0.0, 8.0.0, 9.0.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-19-9-9-1-9-and-9-2-3-security-update-esa-2…

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-68384?: CVE-2025-68384 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-12-18.
How severe is CVE-2025-68384?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.