{"id":"CVE-2025-68390","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-68390","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T04:46:30.270Z","title":"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 HTTP request.","description":"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 HTTP request.","published":"2025-12-18T23:15:50.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T09:59:03.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"security@elastic.co","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":4.9,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-770"],"affected":["elastic/elasticsearch"],"epss":{"score":0.00378,"percentile":0.31567,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.38%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-19-8-9-1-8-and-9-2-2-security-update-esa-2025-37/384185","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security@elastic.co"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68390","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}