CVE-2026-57224 PUBLISHED

Suricata dhcp: unbounded transactions in unidirectional traffic can lead to resource exhaustion

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 24.06.2026 Published: 18.09.2026 Updated: 18.09.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 6.5

Product Status

Vendor OISF
Product suricata
Versions
  • Version >= 8.0.0, < 8.0.6 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption CWE
  • CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE