CVE-2026-57224

Medium

Description

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.5
Exploit probability—
ProductOisf Suricata
PublishedSep 18, 2026
First seenSep 18, 2026

How to fix

Update
  • oisf suricata8.0.6 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
oisf suricata8.0.0 ≤ v < 8.0.68.0.6

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