CVE-2025-68381 MEDIUM

CVE-2025-68381: Packetbeat Improper Bounds Check

Vendor Elastic
Product Packetbeat
Weakness CWE-787
Published December 18, 2025
Last update December 18, 2025
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CVSS base score

6.5/10
Attack vector Adjacent
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

December 18, 2025 CVE published
December 18, 2025 Record updated