CVE-2024-14047: Elastic Winlogbeat

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A local vulnerability in the Winlogbeat Windows installer caused runtime files to be placed in a directory writable by unprivileged users. A low-privileged attacker with existing access to the system could pre-position malicious filesystem links, causing a subsequent elevated Winlogbeat operation to write to or delete arbitrary files. Successful exploitation could result in a denial of service.

Affected products

• Elastic Winlogbeat: from 7.6.0, before 8.13.0 (fixed in 8.13.0)

Published 2026-09-01. Last modified 2026-09-10.