CVSS 3.1
6.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2025-68383
Medium (6.5) in elastic filebeat. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in github.com/elastic/beats/v7 7.0.0-alpha2.0.20251204214633-dd3af18220bf, 8.19.9, 9.1.9.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 8% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-1284
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- elastic:filebeat
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-2mj3-6grc-px38 | Go | github.com/elastic/beats/v7 | >=7.7.0 <8.19.9 | 8.19.9 |
| GHSA-2mj3-6grc-px38 | Go | github.com/elastic/beats/v7 | >=9.0.0 <9.1.9 | 9.1.9 |
| GHSA-2mj3-6grc-px38 | Go | github.com/elastic/beats/v7 | >=9.2.0 <9.2.3 | 9.2.3 |
| GHSA-2mj3-6grc-px38 | Go | github.com/elastic/beats/v7 | <7.0.0-alpha2.0.20251204214633-dd3af18220bf | 7.0.0-alpha2.0.20251204214633-dd3af18220bf |
| GHSA-2mj3-6grc-px38 | Go | github.com/elastic/beats | <=7.6.2 | no fix published |
| GO-2025-4252 | Go | github.com/elastic/beats | all versions | no fix published |
| GO-2025-4252 | Go | github.com/elastic/beats | all versions | no fix published |
| GO-2025-4252 | Go | github.com/elastic/beats/v7 | <7.0.0-alpha2.0.20251204214633-dd3af18220bf >=7.7.0 | 7.0.0-alpha2.0.20251204214633-dd3af18220bf |