CVE-2025-68383 (GCVE-0-2025-68383)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-18 22:00
Modified
2025-12-19 15:15
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-1284 - Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input
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.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Elastic Filebeat Version: 7.0.0   ≤ 7.17.29
Version: 8.0.0   ≤ 8.19.8
Version: 9.0.0   ≤ 9.1.8
Version: 9.2.0   ≤ 9.2.2
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