CVE-2026-78588
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Filebeat Leading to Denial of Service
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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Exploitability
AV:NAttack VectorNetwork
AC:LAttack ComplexityLow
PR:LPrivileges RequiredLow
UI:NUser InteractionNone
Scope
S:UScopeUnchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentialityNone
I:NIntegrityNone
A:HAvailabilityHigh
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