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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2025-68381 EUVD-2025-204396GHSA-9gqx-7h84-8hg2

Packetbeat Improper Bounds Check

Published Dec 18, 2025 · Updated Dec 18, 2025 · Assigned by elastic

Description

Improper Bounds Check (CWE-787) in Packetbeat can allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to exploit a Buffer Overflow (CAPEC-100) and reliably crash the application or cause significant resource exhaustion via a single crafted UDP packet with an invalid fragment sequence number.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Elastic Packetbeat 7.0.0 – ≤ 7.17.29, 8.0.0 – ≤ 8.19.8, 9.0.0 – ≤ 9.1.8, 9.2.0 – ≤ 9.2.2 —

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