CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-78588

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2026-09-02 Modified 2026-09-03 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-09-02
Last modified
2026-09-03
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-770

Description

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Filebeat can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An attacker able to reach the Filebeat HTTP ingestion endpoint could send specially crafted compressed requests that exhaust the memory resources of the Filebeat process.

Affected configurations

• elastic filebeat (>= 8.0.0 < 8.19.18) • elastic filebeat (>= 9.0.0 < 9.3.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness

References