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CVE-2025-68388
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2025-12-18 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-770
Description
Allocation of resources without limits or throttling (CWE-770) allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause excessive allocation (CAPEC-130) of memory and CPU via the integration of malicious IPv4 fragments, leading to a degradation in Packetbeat.
Affected products
- Elastic Packetbeat: from 8.6.0 before 8.19.9; from 9.0.0 before 9.1.9; from 9.2.0 before 9.2.3 — fixed in 8.19.9, 9.1.9, 9.2.3
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Elastic Packetbeat 8.19.9, 9.1.9, 9.2.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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