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CVE-2025-68383GO-2025-4252GHSA-2MJ3-6GRC-PX38

Filebeat Improper Validation of Specified Index, Position, or Offset in Input

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 7.0.0-alpha2.0.20251204214633-dd3af18220bf, 8.19.9, 9.1.9, 9.2.3
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Improper Validation of Specified Index, Position, or Offset in Input (CWE-1285) in Filebeat Syslog parser and the Libbeat Dissect processor can allow a user to trigger a Buffer Overflow (CAPEC-100) and cause a denial of service (panic/crash) of the Filebeat process via either a malformed Syslog message or a malicious tokenizer pattern in the Dissect configuration.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Elastic Filebeat

    From 7.0.0 · through 7.17.29; From 8.0.0 · through 8.19.8; From 9.0.0 · through 9.1.8; From 9.2.0 · through 9.2.2

  • github.com/elastic/beatsGo

    All versions

  • github.com/elastic/beats/v7Go

    fixed in 7.0.0-alpha2.0.20251204214633-dd3af18220bf; From 7.7.0

  • github.com/elastic/beats/v7Go

    From 7.7.0 · fixed in 8.19.9

  • github.com/elastic/beats/v7Go

    From 9.0.0 · fixed in 9.1.9

  • github.com/elastic/beats/v7Go

    From 9.2.0 · fixed in 9.2.3

  • github.com/elastic/beats/v7Go

    fixed in 7.0.0-alpha2.0.20251204214633-dd3af18220bf

  • github.com/elastic/beatsGo

    through 7.6.2

References 1

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