CVE-2026-78588 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Filebeat Leading to Denial of Service

CVE-2026-78588

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Filebeat Leading to Denial of Service PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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 (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
Elastic / Filebeat	affected 8.0.0 through 8.19.17; affected 9.0.0 through 9.3.0

CWE

CWE-770

References

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

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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