Resource exhaustion in Oisf Suricata

CVE-2026-57224

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.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-57224?
CVE-2026-57224 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Oisf Suricata, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2026-09-18.
How severe is CVE-2026-57224?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.