What is GHSA-qr96-485q-v8j7?

GHSA-qr96-485q-v8j7 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Filebeat can lead to a denial...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-qr96-485q-v8j7 cover?

GHSA-qr96-485q-v8j7 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-78588. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-qr96-485q-v8j7?

GHSA-qr96-485q-v8j7 has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.5, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-qr96-485q-v8j7MediumCVSS 6.5

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Filebeat can lead to a denial...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

September 2, 2026

Last Modified

September 2, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-78588 →

📋 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.

🔗 References (3)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-78588
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-8-19-18-9-3-1-security-update-esa-2026-165/390118
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qr96-485q-v8j7