Vulnerability · Published Dec 18, 2025 · Assigned by elastic
CVE-2025-68382Packetbeat Out-of-bounds Read
Medium 6.5
In plain English
A medium-severity out-of-bounds read in Packetbeat from Elastic. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 16% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 83.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
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 (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Elastic | Packetbeat | 7.0.0 – through 7.17.298.0.0 – through 8.19.89.0.0 – through 9.1.89.2.0 – through 9.2.2 |
Weakness: CWE-125 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H