PT-2025-52366 · Elastic · Elasticsearch

Ismisepaul + 1 · Published 2025-12-18 · Updated 2026-04-29 · CVE-2025-68384

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Elasticsearch (affected versions not specified)

Description A flaw exists in Elasticsearch where a low-privileged authenticated user can trigger excessive resource allocation, leading to a persistent denial of service and potentially causing an out-of-memory (OOM) crash. This occurs through the submission of oversized user settings data. The issue is categorized as an allocation of resources without limits or throttling.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Allocation of Resources Without Limits

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-770

Related Identifiers

BIT-ELASTICSEARCH-2025-68384

CLEANSTART-2026-QW49365

CVE-2025-68384

GHSA-QF7C-7R9H-MM92

Affected Products

Elasticsearch

References · 16

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-68384 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CLEANSTART-2026-QW49365 · Vendor Advisory
• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-19-9-9-1-9-and-9-2-3-security-update-esa-2025-33/384181 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68384 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ROOT-APP-MAVEN-CVE-2025-68384 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-qf7c-7r9h-mm92 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch · Note
• https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/ab1d99ae033f2a23a8856b47a2d86652ad63a39a · Note
• https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/138691 · Note
• https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/b46a4f64baea79c4d3afd58bda39d258de97210a · Note
• https://github.com/cleanstart-dev/cleanstart-security-advisories/tree/main/advisories/2026/CLEANSTART-2026-QW49365.json · Note
• https://t.me/CVEtracker/40202 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/2001925861243552158 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/2002104265184043289 · Twitter Post
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ghsa-qf7c-7r9h-mm92 · Note