CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-78588

MediumCVSS 6.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.30%

22th percentile - higher than 22% of all known CVEs

Summary

Unrestricted resource allocation in Filebeat can lead to denial of service. 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.

Risk Assessment

Risk of Filebeat unavailability, potentially disrupting log collection and forwarding, impacting security monitoring.

Recommendation

Update Filebeat to a patched version and restrict access to the HTTP ingestion endpoint.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS