CVE-2026-45759 PUBLISHED

Suricata http1: quadratic Content-Disposition processing can lead to denial of service

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 13.05.2026 Published: 10.09.2026 Updated: 10.09.2026

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Prior to versions 7.0.16 and 8.0.5, Suricata could repeatedly perform expensive parsing of large HTTP Content-Disposition headers during HTTP response body processing. Crafted HTTP traffic could cause excessive CPU usage and denial of service. Versions 7.0.16 and 8.0.5 contain a fix. As a workaround, use a rule like alert http1 any any -> any any (sid: 1; http.request_header; content: "Content-Disposition:"; startswith; bsize: > 8192; bypass;).

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 7.5

Product Status

Vendor OISF
Product suricata
Versions
  • Version < 7.0.16 is affected
  • Version >= 8.0.0, < 8.0.5 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption CWE