CVE-2026-57224 (GCVE-0-2026-57224)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-18 20:08 – Updated: 2026-09-18 20:22
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Suricata dhcp: unbounded transactions in unidirectional traffic can lead to resource exhaustion
Summary
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-18 20:22 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
8 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisor… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/OISF/suricata/pull/15740 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/3f86c56c8… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/5af13e3eb… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/bac8a69ca… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/ef035c760… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/OISF/suricata/releases/tag/sur… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/8621 | x_refsource_MISC |
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