CVE-2025-68382: Elasticsearch Packetbeat

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Elasticsearch Packetbeat: from 7.0.0, up to and including 7.17.29; from 8.0.0, before 8.19.9 (fixed in 8.19.9); from 9.0.0, before 9.1.9 (fixed in 9.1.9); from 9.2.0, before 9.2.3 (fixed in 9.2.3)

Published 2025-12-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.