5.3

CVE-2025-68388: elastic packetbeat

Analyzed
AliasesGHSA-fj69-23m4-ccvvGO-2025-4253CGA-24h3-www6-2jgp
Published 18-12-2025Last modified 19-12-2025

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-68388 is a medium (CVSS 5.3) vulnerability in elastic packetbeat. EPSS estimates a 0.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 35.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 5.3, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
5.3/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.41%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Related 3
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1SUSE-SU-2026:0292-1CGA-FMHX-HQWW-2WXF

Timeline

  1. 18-12-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 19-12-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Allocation of resources without limits or throttling (CWE-770) allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause excessive allocation (CAPEC-130) of memory and CPU via the integration of malicious IPv4 fragments, leading to a degradation in Packetbeat.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.41%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

35%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.41% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Chainguard132 products
  • agentbeatAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • agentbeat-fipsAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • apm-server-8.17All versions (No fix recorded)
  • apm-server-8.18All versions (No fix recorded)
  • apm-server-8.19< 8.19.11-r0
Elastic1 product
  • packetbeat≥ 8.6.0, ≤ 8.19.8 | ≥ 9.0.0, ≤ 9.1.8 | ≥ 9.2.0, ≤ 9.2.2
Elasticsearch1 product
  • packetbeat≥ 8.6.0, < 8.19.9 | ≥ 9.0.0, < 9.1.9 | ≥ 9.2.0, < 9.2.3
Github.com/elastic1 product
  • beats≥ 8.6.0, < 8.19.9 | ≥ 9.0.0, < 9.1.9 | ≥ 9.2.0, < 9.2.3 | All versions (No fix recorded)
Github.com/elastic/beats1 product
  • v7< 7.0.0-alpha2.0.20251209162832-28cfc80d2f4e

5 vendors · 136 products

References

6 links