CVE-2026-57227 PUBLISHED

Suricata mqtt: unbounded resource consumption from repeated pubrec and pubrel messages

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 7.0.0 until 7.0.17 and 8.0.6, the MQTT parser in rust/src/mqtt/mqtt.rs permits repeated PUBREC or PUBREL messages to be appended to one transaction without a limit. Crafted MQTT traffic can grow transaction state indefinitely, consuming CPU and memory and causing slowdown or denial of service. This issue is fixed in versions 8.0.6 and 7.0.17.

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 >= 8.0.0, < 8.0.6 is affected
  • Version >= 7.0.0, < 7.0.17 is affected

References

Problem Types

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