Elastic Elasticsearch up to 7.17.29/8.19.8/9.1.8/9.2.2 Setting allocation of resources

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Elastic Elasticsearch up to 7.17.29/8.19.8/9.1.8/9.2.2 and classified as critical. The affected element is an unknown function of the component Setting Handler. The manipulation results in allocation of resources. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-68384. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Elastic Elasticsearch up to 7.17.29/8.19.8/9.1.8/9.2.2. Affected is an unknown code of the component Setting Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a allocation of resources vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-770. The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Elasticsearch can allow a low-privileged authenticated user to cause Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130) causing a persistent denial of service (OOM crash) via submission of oversized user settings data.

The advisory is available at discuss.elastic.co. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-68384 since 12/16/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 279418 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-68384), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (279418) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-2896). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

Affected

• Open Source Elasticsearch

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Vendor

• Elastic

Name

• Elasticsearch

Version

• 7.17.0
• 7.17.1
• 7.17.2
• 7.17.3
• 7.17.4
• 7.17.5
• 7.17.6
• 7.17.7
• 7.17.8
• 7.17.9
• 7.17.10
• 7.17.11
• 7.17.12
• 7.17.13
• 7.17.14
• 7.17.15
• 7.17.16
• 7.17.17
• 7.17.18
• 7.17.19
• 7.17.20
• 7.17.21
• 7.17.22
• 7.17.23
• 7.17.24
• 7.17.25
• 7.17.26
• 7.17.27
• 7.17.28
• 7.17.29
• 8.19.0
• 8.19.1
• 8.19.2
• 8.19.3
• 8.19.4
• 8.19.5
• 8.19.6
• 8.19.7
• 8.19.8
• 9.1.0
• 9.1.1
• 9.1.2
• 9.1.3
• 9.1.4
• 9.1.5
• 9.1.6
• 9.1.7
• 9.1.8
• 9.2.0
• 9.2.1
• 9.2.2

License

• free

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