CVE-2025-68388
Elasticsearch Packetbeat has Excessive Allocation of Memory and CPU via Malicious IPv4 Fragments in github.com/elastic/beats
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.13%
Description
Elasticsearch Packetbeat has Excessive Allocation of Memory and CPU via Malicious IPv4 Fragments in github.com/elastic/beats
How to fix CVE-2025-68388
To remediate CVE-2025-68388, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Go/github.com/elastic/beats—upgrade to 8.19.9 or later
- —no fix listed
- —upgrade to 7.0.0-alpha2.0.20251209162832-28cfc80d2f4e or later
- —upgrade to 7.0.0-alpha2.0.20251209162832-28cfc80d2f4e or later
Is CVE-2025-68388 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (4)
- >= 8.6.0, < 8.19.9
- from 0
- from 0, < 7.0.0-alpha2.0.20251209162832-28cfc80d2f4e
- from 0, < 7.0.0-alpha2.0.20251209162832-28cfc80d2f4e
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |