GHSA-qf7c-7r9h-mm92MediumCVSS 6.5
Elasticsearch has Excessive Allocation of Resources via Submission of Oversized User Settings Data
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
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.
🎯 Affected products3
- maven/org.elasticsearch.plugin:x-pack-security:< 8.19.9
- maven/org.elasticsearch.plugin:x-pack-security:>= 9.0.0, < 9.1.9
- maven/org.elasticsearch.plugin:x-pack-security:>= 9.2.0, < 9.2.3
🔗 References (6)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68384
- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-19-9-9-1-9-and-9-2-3-security-update-esa-2025-33/384181
- https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/138691
- https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/ab1d99ae033f2a23a8856b47a2d86652ad63a39a
- https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/b46a4f64baea79c4d3afd58bda39d258de97210a
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qf7c-7r9h-mm92