Resource Exhaustion Affecting beats-7 package, versions <7.17.28-r3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.23% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-BEATS7-9402886
  • published13 Mar 2025
  • disclosed12 Jan 2019

Introduced: 12 Jan 2019

CVE-2018-20699  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard beats-7 to version 7.17.28-r3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream beats-7 package and not the beats-7 package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

Docker Engine before 18.09 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (dockerd memory consumption) via a large integer in a --cpuset-mems or --cpuset-cpus value, related to daemon/daemon_unix.go, pkg/parsers/parsers.go, and pkg/sysinfo/sysinfo.go.