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CVE-2026-57224

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Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine.

Vendor / product: Oisf — suricata

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. From 8.0.0 until 8.0.6, the DHCP parser in rust/src/dhcp/dhcp.rs creates stateless transactions without recording their packet direction with AppLayerTxData::for_direction(), so a sensor that observes only one direction cannot mark the unseen direction inspected or free completed transactions. The RDP parser in rust/src/rdp/rdp.rs has the same direction-state defect. The per-flow transaction list can grow without bound and cleanup repeatedly scans it, causing increasing CPU and memory consumption and eventual denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 8.0.6.

CVSS
6.5
6.5 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (security-advisories@github.com)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-09-18 20:17
Modified: 2026-09-28 18:36
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 2 days ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-27 06:54 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

oisf / suricata ≥8.0.0 <8.0.6

Weakness classification (CWE)

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Vendor advisory: https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-m2vc-g65c-ph7m
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/3f86c56c800392ede5cfaf7a944a431fd8445c55
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/5af13e3eb06be0387da8703b611c5ce932245c59
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/bac8a69ca48c14582d39a244a87edad44751ebe1
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/ef035c7603293a10c5ad087e3d20b05f75236144
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/OISF/suricata/pull/15740
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-m2vc-g65c-ph7m

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-27 06:54 UTC · record ↗

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