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CVE-2026-78588

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Published: Sep 2, 2026Modified: Sep 3, 2026

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6.5
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Exploitability: 2.8 / Impact: 3.6
Source: security@elastic.co (Secondary)

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 (2)

Products: Elastic: Filebeat
Elastic
1 product
Filebeat
Configuration A
2 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Elastic
Filebeat
From 8.0.0 to 8.19.18
Filebeat
From 9.0.0 to 9.3.1

Related CWEs

CWE-770
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor.

References (1)

Source: security@elastic.co
MitigationVendor Advisory

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