VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2026-78588

CVSS score6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.42%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-09-02
Last modified2026-09-03
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • security@elastic.co: CWE-770

Primary references