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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.5 Medium

CVE-2026-78588

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Filebeat Leading to Denial of Service

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
elastic

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 products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Elastic Filebeat

Default version status: unaffected

  • 8.0.0 to ≤ 8.19.17affected
  • 9.0.0 to ≤ 9.3.0affected

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