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.
Configurations

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cpe:2.3:a:oisf:suricata:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

28 Sep 2026, 18:36

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CPE cpe:2.3:a:oisf:suricata:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
First Time Oisf suricata
Oisf
References () https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/3f86c56c800392ede5cfaf7a944a431fd8445c55 - () https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/3f86c56c800392ede5cfaf7a944a431fd8445c55 - Patch
References () https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/5af13e3eb06be0387da8703b611c5ce932245c59 - () https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/5af13e3eb06be0387da8703b611c5ce932245c59 - Patch
References () https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/bac8a69ca48c14582d39a244a87edad44751ebe1 - () https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/bac8a69ca48c14582d39a244a87edad44751ebe1 - Patch
References () https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/ef035c7603293a10c5ad087e3d20b05f75236144 - () https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/ef035c7603293a10c5ad087e3d20b05f75236144 - Patch
References () https://github.com/OISF/suricata/pull/15740 - () https://github.com/OISF/suricata/pull/15740 - Patch
References () https://github.com/OISF/suricata/releases/tag/suricata-8.0.6 - () https://github.com/OISF/suricata/releases/tag/suricata-8.0.6 - Release Notes
References () https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-m2vc-g65c-ph7m - () https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-m2vc-g65c-ph7m - Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
References () https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/8621 - () https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/8621 - Permissions Required

18 Sep 2026, 20:17

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New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-09-18 20:17

Updated : 2026-09-28 18:36


NVD link : CVE-2026-57224

Mitre link : CVE-2026-57224

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-57224


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Products Affected

oisf

  • suricata
CWE
CWE-400

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CWE-770

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling