GHSA-2mj3-6grc-px38

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    GHSA-2mj3-6grc-px38

    Published: 19 Dec 2025Last Modified: 10 Sept 2026

    Summary: Filebeat Beats has Buffer Overflow via Malformed Syslog Message or Malicious Tokenizer Pattern in Dissect Configuration

    Details: 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.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68383, https://github.com/elastic/beats/commit/27a168fb1c598d4a16748e9a7382bc0d197335a5, https://github.com/elastic/beats/commit/2f971a057eea68e057b47829950cd8c26805df30, https://github.com/elastic/beats/commit/339fa3f887a14c91e0c955b50a3b8819393bd632, https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-8-19-9-9-1-9-and-9-2-3-security-update-esa-2025-32/384180, https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: github.com/elastic/beats/v7

    Purl: pkg:golang/github.com/elastic/beats/v7

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 7.7.0
    Fixed -8.19.9

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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