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CVE-2026-78588— Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Filebeat Leading to Denial of Service

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Affected
Elastic Filebeat
Exploitation
No confirmed in-the-wild exploitation; assess based on exposure
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Check the vendor advisory and references for a fixed version. If immediate upgrade is impossible, restrict exposure and increase monitoring.

Filebeat 中存在“无限制或无节流地分配资源”漏洞（CWE-770），可能导致通过“过度分配”（CAPEC-130）引发拒绝服务（DoS）。攻击者若能访问 Filebeat 的 HTTP 数据摄入端点，可发送经过精心构造的压缩请求，从而耗尽 Filebeat 进程的内存资源，导致服务不可用。

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I. Basic Information for CVE-2026-78588

Vulnerability Information
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Vulnerability Title
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Filebeat Leading to Denial of Service
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability 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.
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
CVSS Information
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Type
不加限制或调节的资源分配
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5

Affected Products

Vendor Product Affected Versions CPE Subscribe
Elastic Filebeat 8.0.0 ~ 8.19.17 -

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Other References for CVE-2026-78588 (1)

Same Patch Batch · Elastic · 2026-09-02 · 15 CVEs total

CVE-2026-78604 7.8 HIGH Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource in Elastic Agent Leading to Local Pr
CVE-2026-78590 7.3 HIGH Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory in Kibana Leading to Unauthori
CVE-2026-78586 6.5 MEDIUM Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Kibana Leading to Denial of Servic
CVE-2026-78599 6.5 MEDIUM Stored Path Traversal in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Deletion of Internal Resources
CVE-2026-78591 6.3 MEDIUM Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') in Kibana L
CVE-2026-78601 5.5 MEDIUM Missing Authorization in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Elasticsearch Index Data Exposure
CVE-2026-78598 5.4 MEDIUM Incorrect Authorization in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Cross-Space Exposure of Machine
CVE-2026-78609 5.4 MEDIUM Incorrect Authorization in Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes Leading to Unauthorized Modificatio
CVE-2026-78602 5.3 MEDIUM Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory in Elastic Maps Server Leading
CVE-2026-78594 4.9 MEDIUM Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data in APM Server Leading to Persistent Denial of
CVE-2026-82293 4.3 MEDIUM Incorrect Authorization in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Resource Consumption
CVE-2026-78584 4.3 MEDIUM Observable Response Discrepancy in Kibana Leading to Cross-Space Information Disclosure
CVE-2026-78600 3.5 LOW Incomplete Cleanup in Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes Leading to Unauthorized Cross-Namespace
CVE-2026-78587 3.1 LOW Incorrect Authorization in Fleet Server Leading to Denial of Service of Agent Upload Opera

IV. Related Vulnerabilities

Same product: Filebeat
Same vendor: Elastic
Same weakness: CWE-770

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