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CVE-2025-68388 + 5 more medium

AISLE analyzer finds Elastic Beats denial-of-service cluster

AISLE says its analyzer discovered nine Elastic Beats denial-of-service vulnerabilities across Packetbeat, Filebeat, and Metricbeat, with several CVEs already public and fixed.

Bug class
Network and telemetry parser denial-of-service vulnerabilities
Affected codebase
Elastic Beats
Credited system
AISLE
Disclosed
April 30, 2026
Attribution
Direct source attribution
Severity
medium
Source status: AISLE's April 30, 2026 write-up says Pavel Kohout discovered and reported the issues using AISLE's analyzer. Elastic advisories and CVE records corroborate the fixed public subset. Pending CVEs from the AISLE post are not included in the cveId field.

Summary

AISLE reports a nine-vulnerability denial-of-service campaign against Elastic Beats, covering Packetbeat, Filebeat, and Metricbeat. The public CVE-backed subset includes Packetbeat and Metricbeat issues in protocol parsers and metric ingestion paths.

The operational impact is loss of telemetry: malformed network traffic or metrics can crash or exhaust Beats components, creating blind spots in logging and detection pipelines.

Attribution

This is direct for the AI-system side because AISLE’s primary write-up says the issues were discovered and reported using AISLE’s analyzer. Elastic and CVE records provide the accepted advisory trail for the public subset. Bugflation labels the cluster medium because several public CVSS records currently score the disclosed CVEs around 6.5, even though AISLE describes the campaign as high-severity from an operational logging perspective.

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