Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Sep 2, 2026· Updated Sep 3, 2026
CVE-2026-78588
CVE-2026-78588
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.
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References
1- discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-8-19-18-9-3-1-security-update-esa-2026-165/390118nvdMitigationVendor Advisory
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