CVE-2026-78588: CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Elastic Filebeat
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.
CVE-2026-78588: CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Elastic Filebeat
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.
CVSS v3.1
Score 6.5medium
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Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- elastic
- Date Reserved
- 2026-08-24T21:13:45.972Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- null
Threat ID: 6a983847acd9273b495d15d2
Added to database: 09/02/2026, 14:52:55 UTC
Last updated: 09/03/2026, 01:05:44 UTC
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