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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-115297 EUVD-2026-116077GHSA-m495-gxx4-gw2p

NULL Pointer Dereference in Packetbeat Leading to Denial of Service

Published Nov 3, 2026 · Updated Nov 3, 2026 · Assigned by elastic

Description

NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476) in the AMQP protocol parser in Packetbeat can lead to denial of service via specially crafted network traffic. An unauthenticated attacker who can send traffic on a network segment that Packetbeat monitors for AMQP can cause a Go runtime panic that terminates the Packetbeat process. A single crafted packet is sufficient. No AMQP authentication is necessary. While Packetbeat is not running, it does not collect network telemetry.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Elastic Packetbeat 8.0.0 – ≤ 8.19.23, 9.0.0 – ≤ 9.4.8, 9.5.0 – ≤ 9.5.5 —

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