CVE-2026-78588 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: elastic
Reserved: 24.08.2026 Published: 02.09.2026 Updated: 02.09.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 6.5

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	None
Privileges Required	Low	Integrity Impact	None
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	High

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	Elastic
Product	Filebeat
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 8.0.0 to 8.19.17 (incl.) affected from 9.0.0 to 9.3.0 (incl.)

References

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

Problem Types

CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE

Impacts

CAPEC-130 Excessive Allocation