Insecure Randomness Affecting suricata package, versions [,7.0.7)
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.05% (19th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UNMANAGED-SURICATA-8232162
- published 18 Oct 2024
- disclosed 16 Oct 2024
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 16 Oct 2024
CVE-2024-47187 Open this link in a new tabHow 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 the dataset file to take excessive time to load and create runtime performance issues during traffic handling by exploiting predictable hash table behavior.
Workaround
This vulnerability can be mitigated by avoiding loading datasets from untrusted sources and avoiding dataset rules that track traffic in rules.