Packetbeat 8.19.9, 9.1.9, and 9.2.3 Security Update (ESA-2025-31)

Packetbeat Out-of-bounds Read (ESA-2025-31)

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 Versions:

  • 7.x: All versions
  • 8.x: All versions from 8.0.0 up to and including 8.19.8
  • 9.x:
    • All versions from 9.0.0 up to and including 9.1.8
    • All versions from 9.2.0 up to and including 9.2.2

Solutions and Mitigations:

The issue is resolved in version 8.19.9, 9.1.9, and 9.2.3.

Severity: CVSSv3.1: 6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVE ID: CVE-2025-68382