Insecure Randomness Affecting suricata package, versions [,7.0.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SURICATA-8232161
  • published18 Oct 2024
  • disclosed16 Oct 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Oct 2024

CVE-2024-47188  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-330  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade suricata to version 7.0.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insecure Randomness due to the missing initialization of the random seed for thash. An attacker can cause severe performance degradation by forcing a large amount of data into a single hash bucket.

CVSS Scores

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