GHSA-2mj3-6grc-px38
Filebeat Beats has Buffer Overflow via Malformed Syslog Message or Malicious Tokenizer Pattern in Dissect Configuration
At a glance
- Published
- Updated
- CVE
- CVE-2025-68383
- Aliases
- GO-2025-4252
- CVSS_V3
- CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
Improper Validation of Specified Index, Position, or Offset in Input (CWE-1285) in Filebeat Syslog parser and the Libbeat Dissect processor can allow a user to trigger a Buffer Overflow (CAPEC-100) and cause a denial of service (panic/crash) of the Filebeat process via either a malformed Syslog message or a malicious tokenizer pattern in the Dissect configuration.
Affected packages
| Package | Versions |
|---|---|
| Go · github.com/elastic/beats/v7 | introduced 7.7.0, fixed 8.19.9 |
| Go · github.com/elastic/beats/v7 | introduced 9.0.0, fixed 9.1.9 |
| Go · github.com/elastic/beats/v7 | introduced 9.2.0, fixed 9.2.3 |
| Go · github.com/elastic/beats/v7 | introduced 0, fixed 7.0.0-alpha2.0.20251204214633-dd3af18220bf |
| Go · github.com/elastic/beats | introduced 0, last affected 7.6.2 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68383 ADVISORY
- https://github.com/elastic/beats/commit/27a168fb1c598d4a16748e9a7382bc0d197335a5 WEB
- https://github.com/elastic/beats/commit/2f971a057eea68e057b47829950cd8c26805df30 WEB
- https://github.com/elastic/beats/commit/339fa3f887a14c91e0c955b50a3b8819393bd632 WEB
- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-8-19-9-9-1-9-and-9-2-3-security-update-esa-2025-32/384180 WEB
- https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch PACKAGE
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| OSV.dev | CC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database |