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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Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Elastic
Elastic filebeat
Vendors & Products Elastic
Elastic filebeat

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 17:30:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 02 Sep 2026 10:45:00 +0000

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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.
Title Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Filebeat Leading to Denial of Service
Weaknesses CWE-770
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: elastic

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-02T15:58:11.035Z

Reserved: 2026-08-24T21:13:45.972Z

Link: CVE-2026-78588

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-02T15:49:54.054Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-09-02T15:17:40.307

Modified: 2026-09-02T19:23:13.660

Link: CVE-2026-78588

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-03T10:45:04Z

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