GHSA-9q3g-m353-cp4pHighCVSS 7.5

Denial of Service in Packetbeat

Published
February 15, 2022
Last Modified
February 14, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Packetbeat versions prior to 5.6.4 and 6.0.0 are affected by a denial of service flaw in the PostgreSQL protocol handler. If Packetbeat is listening for PostgreSQL traffic and a user is able to send arbitrary network traffic to the monitored port, the attacker could prevent Packetbeat from properly logging other PostgreSQL traffic.

🎯 Affected products2

  • go/github.com/elastic/beats:< 5.6.4
  • go/github.com/elastic/beats:>= 6.0.0-alpha1, < 6.0.0

🔗 References (8)