Security Advisory

CVE-2026-78588

6.5
MEDIUM

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.
Published Date September 2, 2026
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory