Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting suricata package, versions [,6.0.16)[7.0.0,7.0.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.85% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SURICATA-6305447
  • published29 Feb 2024
  • disclosed26 Feb 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Feb 2024

CVE-2024-23836  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade suricata to version 6.0.16, 7.0.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. An attacker can cause the application to consume excessive CPU and memory resources by sending malicious traffic.

Workaround

This vulnerability can be mitigated by disabling the affected protocol app-layer parser in the yaml configuration or lowering the stream.reassembly.depth value.

Note: The maintainers note that "HTTP2 is considered experimental and disabled by default in 6.0.x".

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1