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Elastic Logstash: vulnerabilities and CVEs

Elastic Logstash has 15 published vulnerabilities, 2 of them in the last 12 months. 2 are rated critical and 0 are listed by CISA as actively exploited.

CVEs15
Last 12 months2
Critical2
Actively exploited0

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Latest vulnerabilities

CVESeverityEPSSActive exploitationPublishedDescription
CVE-2026-19671High (7.1)0.39%—Aug 18, 2026
Malcolm's upload-processing pipeline (scripts/safe-extract.py) enforces entry-count, nesting-depth, and total-uncompressed-byte limits when extracting container archives (zip/tar/rar/7z via libarchive), but those limits…
CVE-2026-33466Critical (9.8)0.85%—Apr 8, 2026
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (CWE-22) in Logstash can lead to arbitrary file write and potentially remote code execution via Relative Path Traversal (CAPEC-139). The archive extraction…
CVE-2025-37730Medium (6.5)0.18%—May 6, 2025
Improper certificate validation in Logstash's TCP output could lead to a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack in “client” mode, as hostname verification in TCP output was not being performed when the ssl_verification_mode =>…
CVE-2023-46672Medium (5.5)0.34%—Nov 15, 2023
An issue was identified by Elastic whereby sensitive information is recorded in Logstash logs under specific circumstances. The prerequisites for the manifestation of this issue are:
CVE-2021-22138Low (3.7)0.46%—May 13, 2021
In Logstash versions after 6.4.0 and before 6.8.15 and 7.12.0 a TLS certificate validation flaw was found in the monitoring feature. When specifying a trusted server CA certificate Logstash would not properly verify the…
CVE-2019-7620High (7.5)2.1%—Oct 30, 2019
Logstash versions before 7.4.1 and 6.8.4 contain a denial of service flaw in the Logstash Beats input plugin. An unauthenticated user who is able to connect to the port the Logstash beats input could send a specially…
CVE-2019-7612Critical (9.8)2.4%—Mar 25, 2019
A sensitive data disclosure flaw was found in the way Logstash versions before 5.6.15 and 6.6.1 logs malformed URLs. If a malformed URL is specified as part of the Logstash configuration, the credentials for the URL…
CVE-2018-3817Medium (6.5)1.0%—Mar 30, 2018
When logging warnings regarding deprecated settings, Logstash before 5.6.6 and 6.x before 6.1.2 could inadvertently log sensitive information.
CVE-2015-5619Medium (5.9)1.2%—Aug 9, 2017
Logstash 1.4.x before 1.4.5 and 1.5.x before 1.5.4 with Lumberjack output or the Logstash forwarder does not validate SSL/TLS certificates from the Logstash server, which might allow attackers to obtain sensitive…
CVE-2015-5378High (7.5)2.5%—Jun 27, 2017
Logstash 1.5.x before 1.5.3 and 1.4.x before 1.4.4 allows remote attackers to read communications between Logstash Forwarder agent and Logstash server.
CVE-2016-10363High (7.5)1.5%—Jun 16, 2017
Logstash versions prior to 2.3.3, when using the Netflow Codec plugin, a remote attacker crafting malicious Netflow v5, Netflow v9 or IPFIX packets could perform a denial of service attack on the Logstash instance. The…
CVE-2016-1000222High (7.5)1.1%—Jun 16, 2017
Logstash prior to version 2.1.2, the CSV output can be attacked via engineered input that will create malicious formulas in the CSV data.
CVE-2016-1000221High (7.5)1.8%—Jun 16, 2017
Logstash prior to version 2.3.4, Elasticsearch Output plugin would log to file HTTP authorization headers which could contain sensitive information.
CVE-2015-4152Medium (6.4)3.0%—Jun 15, 2015
Directory traversal vulnerability in the file output plugin in Elasticsearch Logstash before 1.4.3 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via vectors related to dynamic field references in the path option.
CVE-2014-4326High (7.5)3.3%—Jul 22, 2014
Elasticsearch Logstash 1.0.14 through 1.4.x before 1.4.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted event in (1) zabbix.rb or (2) nagios_nsca.rb in outputs/.

🎯 How it gets exploited (ATT&CK techniques)

  1. T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application1
  2. T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services1
  3. T1499.004 Application or System Exploitation1
  4. T1565.001 Stored Data Manipulation1

Number of CVEs of this technology mapped to each exploitation or primary-impact technique.

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