Elastic Packetbeat up to 7.17.29/8.19.8/9.1.8/9.2.2 XDR-encoded RPC Message out-of-bounds

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Elastic Packetbeat up to 7.17.29/8.19.8/9.1.8/9.2.2. It has been classified as problematic. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component XDR-encoded RPC Message Handler. This manipulation causes out-of-bounds. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-68382. The attack can only be done within the local network. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability has been found in Elastic Packetbeat up to 7.17.29/8.19.8/9.1.8/9.2.2 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the component XDR-encoded RPC Message Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a out-of-bounds vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-125. The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

Out-of-bounds read (CWE-125) allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to perform a buffer overflow (CAPEC-100) via the NFS protocol dissector, leading to a denial-of-service (DoS) through a reliable process crash when handling truncated XDR-encoded RPC messages.

It is possible to read the advisory at discuss.elastic.co. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-68382 since 12/16/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. Access to the local network is required for this attack. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 281874 (Elastic Beats filebeat 7.0.x < 8.19.9 / 9.0.x < 9.1.9 / 9.2.x 9.2.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities), 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 vulnerability database at Tenable (281874). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Vendor

• Elastic

Name

• Packetbeat

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

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