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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2025-68388 EUVD-2025-204397GHSA-fj69-23m4-ccvvGO-2025-4253

Elasticsearch Packetbeat has Excessive Allocation of Memory and CPU via Malicious IPv4 Fragments

Published Dec 18, 2025 · Updated Dec 19, 2025 · Assigned by elastic

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Elastic Packetbeat 8.6.0 – ≤ 8.19.8, 9.0.0 – ≤ 9.1.8, 9.2.0 – ≤ 9.2.2 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260123T022811-150000.1.140.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0292-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/elastic/beats >= 8.6.0, < 8.19.9 8.19.9 GHSA-fj69-23m4-ccvv
Go github.com/elastic/beats >= 9.0.0, < 9.1.9 9.1.9 GHSA-fj69-23m4-ccvv
Go github.com/elastic/beats >= 9.2.0, < 9.2.3 9.2.3 GHSA-fj69-23m4-ccvv
Go github.com/elastic/beats all versions — GO-2025-4253
Go github.com/elastic/beats/v7 < 7.0.0-alpha2.0.20251209162832-28cfc80d2f4e 7.0.0-alpha2.0.20251209162832-28cfc80d2f4e GHSA-fj69-23m4-ccvv

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