# CVE-2025-68381: Packetbeat Improper Bounds Check

> CVE-2025-68381: Packetbeat Improper Bounds Check. CVSS 6.5 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-68381
Last updated: 2026-06-17T09:59:02Z

- Published: 2025-12-18 21:51 UTC · Updated: 2026-06-17 09:59 UTC · Assigner: elastic
- CVSS: 6.5 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: Medium · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS: 0.46%, 39th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-787

## 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 vendors and products

- Elastic: Packetbeat

## Tracked companies

- [Elastic Cloud](https://rewindex.com/company/elastic-cloud.md)

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68381)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68381)
- [https://discuss.elastic.co/t/packetbeat-8-19-9-9-1-9-and-9-2-3-security-update-esa-2025-30/384178](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/packetbeat-8-19-9-9-1-9-and-9-2-3-security-update-esa-2025-30/384178)

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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-68381 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-68381.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2025-68381 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T02:15:21.858Z