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Fencer Intel
high 7.5

CVE-2017-11480 json

Denial of Service in Packetbeat

published 2017-12-08 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-9q3g-m353-cp4p , GO-2022-0643 , EUVD-2022-0944

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.4%
EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 73%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Packetbeat versions prior to 5.6.4 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.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/elastic/beats 5.6.4, 6.0.0, 6.1.0+incompatible
  • elasticsearch packetbeat 5.6.4

Exploit prediction

1.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 73% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/elastic/beats
<5.6.4
>=6.0.0-alpha1, <6.0.0
<6.1.0+incompatible
5.6.4
6.0.0
6.1.0+incompatible

Affected products

  • Elastic Packetbeat

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-404 Improper Resource Shutdown or Release

References

Sources

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