CVE-2025-68383 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2025-68383

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

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Filebeat
Vulnerable Versions:
7.0.0, 8.0.0, 9.0.0, 9.2.0

Timeline

Official Publish: December 18th, 2025
Last Modified: December 19th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-1284

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.