CVE-2025-68388 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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 denial-of-service in Packetbeat.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

No EPSS score available.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

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Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/packetbeat-8-19-9-9-1-9-and-9-2-3-security-update-esa-2025-29/384177

History

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
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 denial-of-service in Packetbeat.
Title		Packetbeat Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Weaknesses		CWE-770
References		https://discuss.elastic.co/t/packetbeat-8-19-9-9-1-9-and-9-2-3-security-update-esa-2025-29/384177
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}`

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: elastic

Published: 2025-12-18T21:33:50.796Z

Updated: 2025-12-18T21:48:49.252Z

Reserved: 2025-12-16T19:18:49.563Z

Link: CVE-2025-68388

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-12-18T21:48:45.365Z

NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-12-18T22:16:02.683

Modified: 2025-12-18T22:16:02.683

Link: CVE-2025-68388

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-770

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