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CVE-2026-78588
6.5 MEDIUM
- CVSS version (CVSS): 3.1
- Attack Vector (AV): Network (N)
- Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
- Privileges Required (PR): Low (L)
- User Interaction (UI): None (N)
- Scope (S): Unchanged (U)
- Confidentiality (C): None (N)
- Integrity (I): None (N)
- Availability (A): High (H)
- Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Network (N)
- Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
- Modified Privileges Required (MPR): Low (L)
- Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
- Modified Confidentiality (MC): None (N)
- Modified Scope (MS): Unchanged (U)
- Modified Integrity (MI): None (N)
- Modified Availability (MA): High (H)
by @mweinelt Activity log
- Created suggestion
- @mweinelt ignored package filebeat
- @mweinelt accepted
- @mweinelt published on GitHub
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Filebeat Leading to Denial of Service
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 products
Filebeat
- =<9.3.0
- =<8.19.17
Matching in nixpkgs
pkgs.filebeat7
Lightweight shipper for logfiles
Package maintainers
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@basvandijk Bas van Dijk <v.dijk.bas@gmail.com>
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@dfithian Daniel Fithian <daniel.m.fithian@gmail.com>
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@srhb Sarah Brofeldt <sbrofeldt@gmail.com>