Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop Affecting suricata package, versions <7.0.14>=8.0.0-beta1 <8.0.3
Threat Intelligence
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- published28 Jan 2026
- disclosed27 Jan 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 27 Jan 2026
NewCVE-2026-22261 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade suricata to version 7.0.14, 8.0.3 or higher.
Overview
suricata is a network IDS, IPS and NSM engine developed by the OISF and the Suricata community.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop in the xff process. An attacker can cause severe slowdowns by sending specially crafted HTTP requests that exploit inefficiencies in the handling of X-Forwarded-For headers. This is only exploitable if XFF support is enabled in the eve configuration.
Workaround
This vulnerability can be mitigated by disabling XFF support in the eve configuration.