Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Filebeat Leading to Denial of Service (Elastic Filebeat)
At a glance
- Source
- NVD
- EPSS
- EPSS 0.42 % · percentile 36 ()
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- elastic
- NVD status
- Analyzed
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.
Weaknesses (CWE)
- CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
References
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM 6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | elastic |
| CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM 6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | NVD · security@elastic.co (Secondary) |
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-70066
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-78588
CERT-FR advisories
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1107 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Elastic · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
Affected configurations (NVD CPE)
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:filebeat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*≥ 8.0.0 < 8.19.18cpe:2.3:a:elastic:filebeat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*≥ 9.0.0 < 9.3.1
Affected products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
| Elastic · Filebeat | affected 8.0.0 ≤ 8.19.17 ; affected 9.0.0 ≤ 9.3.0 |
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| CERT-FR (ANSSI) | Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0 |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |