CVE-2025-53538 (GCVE-0-2025-53538)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-22 21:36 – Updated: 2025-07-23 18:32
VLAI
Title
Suricata's mishandling of data on HTTP2 stream 0 can lead to resource starvation
Summary
Suricata is a network IDS, IPS and NSM engine developed by the OISF (Open Information Security Foundation) and the Suricata community. In versions 7.0.10 and below and 8.0.0-beta1 through 8.0.0-rc1, mishandling of data on HTTP2 stream 0 can lead to uncontrolled memory usage, leading to loss of visibility. Workarounds include disabling the HTTP/2 parser, and using a signature like drop http2 any any -> any any (frame:http2.hdr; byte_test:1,=,0,3; byte_test:4,=,0,5; sid: 1;) where the first byte test tests the HTTP2 frame type DATA and the second tests the stream id 0. This is fixed in versions 7.0.11 and 8.0.0.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
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Vendor Product Version
OISF suricata Affected: < 7.0.11
Affected: >= 8.0.0-beta1, < 8.0.0
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