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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elastic | Filebeat | 8.0.0 – ≤ 8.19.17, 9.0.0 – ≤ 9.3.0 | — |
Advisories 1
- WID-SEC-2026-3134 Filebeat: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Denial of Service BSI CERT-Bund (WID) · Sep 2, 2026