What is CVE-2025-68390?

CVE-2025-68390 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 4.9/10. Published 2025-12-18.

How severe is CVE-2025-68390?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.9 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Elastic Elasticsearch

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…

EPSS: 0.003 (50.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/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-8-19-8-9-1-8-and-9-2-2-security-update-esa-2…

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-68390?: CVE-2025-68390 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 4.9/10. Published 2025-12-18.
How severe is CVE-2025-68390?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.9 out of 10.