Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop Affecting suricata package, versions >=8.0.0-beta1 <8.0.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUST-SURICATA-15123581
  • published28 Jan 2026
  • disclosed27 Jan 2026
  • creditoss-fuzz

Introduced: 27 Jan 2026

NewCVE-2026-22263  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1050  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade suricata to version 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 via the http1 headers parsing process. An attacker can cause significant performance degradation by sending specially crafted HTTP headers split across multiple packets.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1