Suricata Network Engine DoS and Performance Issues

Denial of service in Suricata 8.0.0 through 8.0.3 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to degrade performance via specially crafted SMTP traffic containing MIME-encoded messages with URLs. The quadratic complexity vulnerability (CWE-407) triggers excessive processing when the IDS/IPS engine searches for URLs in malformed messages. EPSS data not provided, but exploitation probability appears low given no public exploit identified at time of analysis and the requirement for sustained malicious SMTP traffic to achieve impact.

Memory exhaustion in Suricata network IDS/IPS via HTTP/2 CONTINUATION frame flooding allows remote unauthenticated attackers to trigger denial of service, typically forcing operating system termination of the Suricata process. Affects all versions prior to 7.0.15 and 8.0.4. EPSS data not available, but CVSS 7.5 (High) reflects network-accessible attack with low complexity requiring no privileges. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, though the attack technique (HTTP/2 frame flooding) is well-documented in protocol security research.

NULL pointer dereference in Suricata 8.0.0 through 8.0.3 causes denial of service when processing malformed TLS traffic with the 'tls.alpn' rule keyword. Remote unauthenticated attackers can crash the IDS/IPS engine by sending specially crafted network packets, completely disabling network security monitoring. EPSS data not available, but the low attack complexity (AC:L) and network vector (AV:N) combined with high availability impact (A:H) indicate significant operational risk for organizations relying on Suricata for traffic inspection. No evidence of active exploitation (no CISA KEV listing) or public exploit code identified at time of analysis.

Performance degradation in Suricata IDS/IPS engine allows remote unauthenticated attackers to cause denial of service through inefficient Kerberos 5 buffering. Affects versions prior to 7.0.15 and 8.0.4. CVSS 7.5 with high availability impact. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, EPSS data not provided. Vendor-released patches available in versions 7.0.15 and 8.0.4.

Network-accessible resource exhaustion in Suricata IDS allows remote attackers to degrade detection performance via specially crafted traffic. Affects versions prior to 7.0.15 and 8.0.4 (CVSS 7.5 HIGH). Attack requires no authentication (PR:N) and low complexity (AC:L), enabling trivial performance degradation that could blind security monitoring. EPSS data not available, but no public exploit identified at time of analysis. Vendor patches released for both affected branches (7.0.15, 8.0.4).

Network denial-of-service in Suricata prior to 7.0.15 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to degrade intrusion detection performance via inefficient DCERPC buffering. The flaw enables attackers to bypass or impair network security monitoring by exhausting system resources through malformed DCERPC traffic, effectively blinding detection capabilities. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, though EPSS score and exploitation likelihood were not provided in available data.