CVE-2026-78588Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Filebeat Leading to Denial of Service
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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.
- CVSS
- 6.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-770
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- elastic
- NVD analysis
- Analyzed
- Record last updated
- Sep 2, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
Elastic Filebeat elastic:filebeat (from the name) | from 8.0.0 through 8.19.17; from 9.0.0 through 9.3.0 | CNA record |
elastic filebeat elastic:filebeat | from 8.0.0 before 8.19.18; from 9.0.0 before 9.3.1 | NVD |
References
- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-8-19-18-9-3-1-security-update-esa-2026-165/390118mitigation, vendor-advisory
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