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.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Attack Vector
- adjacent network
- Complexity
- low
- Privileges
- none
- User Action
- none
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- high
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- ELASTICSEARCH
- Published
- 12/18/2025
- Last Modified
- 12/23/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
elasticsearch : packetbeatelasticsearch : packetbeatelasticsearch : packetbeatelasticsearch : packetbeat
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