CVE-2026-78588
Medium
Description
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.
SeverityMedium
CVSS6.5
Exploit probability—
ProductElastic Filebeat
PublishedSep 2, 2026
First seenSep 2, 2026
Weakness typeCWE-770Allocation of resources without limits
How to fix
Update
- elastic filebeat8.19.18, 9.3.1 or later
Affected products
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| elastic filebeat | 8.0.0 ≤ v < 8.19.18, 9.0.0 ≤ v < 9.3.1 | 8.19.18, 9.3.1 |
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