CVE-2026-78588

MEDIUMPre-NVD 6.56.5—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 6.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-09-02. a secondary CVSS source baseline 6.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
6.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 6.5Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

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.

CVSS v3
6.5
EG Score
6.5(high)
EG Risk
29(Track)
EG Risk 29/100SSVC: Track

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity65% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
22%
KEV
Not listed

Published

September 2, 2026

Last Modified

September 3, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Sep 2, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

Filebeat 8.19.18, 9.3.1 Security Update (ESA-2026-165) - Security Announcements - Discuss the Elastic Stack

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-8-19-18-9-3-1-security-update-esa-2026-165/390118

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-78588(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 18× in last 7d / 50× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-09-20 20:16 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-09-20 17:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-09-19 18:34 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-09-19 18:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-09-18 19:36 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-09-18 19:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescore
  8. 2026-09-17 20:37 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-09-17 20:37 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-09-16 18:36 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-09-16 18:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-09-16 14:08 UTCEPSS rescore
  13. 2026-09-16 05:15 UTCEPSS rescore
  14. 2026-09-15 17:22 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-09-15 17:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-09-15 03:12 UTCEPSS rescore
  17. 2026-09-15 03:12 UTCEPSS rescore
  18. 2026-09-14 18:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-09-13 19:25 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-09-13 19:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-09-12 20:27 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-09-12 20:27 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-09-11 21:28 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-09-11 21:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  25. 2026-09-11 14:53 UTCEPSS rescore
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  1. 2026-09-11 14:53 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-09-10 22:30 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-09-10 22:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-09-09 23:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-09-08 23:13 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-09-08 23:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-09-08 22:01 UTCEPSS rescore
  8. 2026-09-07 15:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-09-06 16:23 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-09-06 16:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-09-06 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
  12. 2026-09-05 17:24 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-09-05 17:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-09-04 18:21 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-09-04 18:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-09-04 05:07 UTCEPSS rescore
  17. 2026-09-03 19:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
  18. 2026-09-03 18:37 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-09-02 19:32 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-09-02 19:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-09-02 16:20 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-09-02 16:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-09-02 15:31 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-09-02 14:52 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-09-02 14:51 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-78588?
CVE-2026-78588 is a medium vulnerability published on September 2, 2026. 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…
When was CVE-2026-78588 disclosed?
CVE-2026-78588 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on September 2, 2026, with the most recent update on September 3, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-78588 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-78588 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 77.5% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-78588?
CVE-2026-78588 has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-78588?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-78588, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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