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Medium 6.5Published Dec 18, 2025

CVE-2025-68383Improper Validation of Specified Index, Position, or Offset in Input (CWE-1285) in Filebeat Syslog parser and the Libbeat Dissect processor can allow a user to trigger a Buffer Overflow (CAPEC-100) a…

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No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

Improper Validation of Specified Index, Position, or Offset in Input (CWE-1285) in Filebeat Syslog parser and the Libbeat Dissect processor can allow a user to trigger a Buffer Overflow (CAPEC-100) and cause a denial of service (panic/crash) of the Filebeat process via either a malformed Syslog message or a malicious tokenizer pattern in the Dissect configuration.

CVSS
6.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-1284
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
Not given
NVD analysis
Analyzed
Record last updated
Jun 17, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
elastic filebeat
elastic:filebeat
from 7.0.0 through 7.17.29; from 8.0.0 before 8.19.9; from 9.0.0 before 9.1.9; from 9.2.0 before 9.2.3
NVD

References

  • vendor-advisory

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