CVE-2024-28870

Published: Apr 3, 2024Modified: Apr 28, 2025

7.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 3.6

Source: NVD

Description

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine developed by the OISF and the Suricata community. When parsing an overly long SSH banner, Suricata can use excessive CPU resources, as well as cause excessive logging volume in alert records. This issue has been patched in versions 6.0.17 and 7.0.4.

Affected (2)

Products: Oisf: Suricata

1 product

Configuration A

2 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Oisf Suricata	Before 6.0.17
Oisf Suricata	From 7.0.0 to 7.0.4

Related CWEs

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor.

References (2)

https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-mhhx-xw7r-r5c8

Source: security-advisories@github.com

Vendor Advisory

https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-mhhx-xw7r-r5c8

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Vendor Advisory

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