Medium severity · published Sep 18, 2026
CVE-2026-57224
Suricata dhcp: unbounded transactions in unidirectional traffic can lead to resource exhaustion
6.5
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. From 8.0.0 until 8.0.6, the DHCP parser in rust/src/dhcp/dhcp.rs creates stateless transactions without recording their packet direction with AppLayerTxData::for_direction(), so a sensor that observes only one direction cannot mark the unseen direction inspected or free completed transactions. The RDP parser in rust/src/rdp/rdp.rs has the same direction-state defect. The per-flow transaction list can grow without bound and cleanup repeatedly scans it, causing increasing CPU and memory consumption and eventual denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 8.0.6.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Adjacent
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 35% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SU
suricata · OISF
>= 8.0.0, < 8.0.6 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-57224
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-57224
Patch
https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/3f86c56c800392ede5cfaf7a944a431fd8445c55
Patch
https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/5af13e3eb06be0387da8703b611c5ce932245c59
Patch
https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/bac8a69ca48c14582d39a244a87edad44751ebe1
Patch
https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/ef035c7603293a10c5ad087e3d20b05f75236144
Patch
https://github.com/OISF/suricata/pull/15740
Release Notes
https://github.com/OISF/suricata/releases/tag/suricata-8.0.6
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