Skip to content
ElasticCVE-2026-78588

Elastic Filebeat: denial of service

Medium6.5CVE-2026-78588 · Published Sep 2, 2026 · updated Sep 3, 2026

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.

Elastic advisory

Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
Filebeat
Product
>= 8.0.0, <= 8.19.17No fix yet
>= 9.0.0, <= 9.3.0No 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

More Elastic advisories

All Elastic
Advisory
Elastic Kibana: improper authorization
Medium4.3Sep 2
Elastic Kibana: path traversal
Medium6.5Sep 2
Elastic Eck Operator: incomplete cleanup
Low3.5Sep 2
Elastic Kibana: missing authorization
Medium5.5Sep 2
Elastic Maps Server: path traversal
Medium5.3Sep 2
Elastic Agent: insecure permissions
High7.8Sep 2

Critical advisories by email

Wednesdays: the week’s critical and high advisories in the AI and data stack, with the fixed versions. Only in weeks that have some.

Double opt-in. Unsubscribe any time.