Advisoriesby IbisElasticCVE-2026-78588
Elastic Filebeat: denial of service
No fix yet
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 versions
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Filebeat Product | >= 8.0.0, <= 8.19.17 | No fix yet |
| >= 9.0.0, <= 9.3.0 | No fix yet |
Details and references
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Severity from
- the vendor (its own CVE record or advisory)
- Weakness
- CWE-770