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Vulnerability record · CVE-2025-68382 · published 18 December 2025

CVE-2025-68382: Elasticsearch packetbeat out-of-bounds read vulnerability

Elasticsearch · Packetbeat

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.

6.5 CVSS 3.1 Medium EPSS 0.25% · top 85.6% CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds read
6.5CVSS 3.1 base score
0.25%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
1References
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

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.

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/packetbeat-8-19-9-9-1-9-and-9-2-3-security-update-esa-2025-31/384179 Vendor Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2025-68382), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.