CVE-2026-78588

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 v3 6.5 MEDIUM

6.5^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-8-19-18-9-3-1-security-update-esa-2026-165/390118	Mitigation Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:elastic:filebeat::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:elastic:filebeat::::::::

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-09-02 15:17

Updated : 2026-09-03 19:12

NVD link : CVE-2026-78588

Mitre link : CVE-2026-78588

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-78588

JSON object : View

Products Affected

elastic

filebeat

CWE

CWE-770

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

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