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TI-2026-41165 Aliases CVE-2026-57227

Suricata mqtt: unbounded resource consumption from repeated pubrec and pubrel messages

Priority MEDIUM 40CWE-400Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-400.

Summary

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. From 7.0.0 until 7.0.17 and 8.0.6, the MQTT parser in rust/src/mqtt/mqtt.rs permits repeated PUBREC or PUBREL messages to be appended to one transaction without a limit. Crafted MQTT traffic can grow transaction state indefinitely, consuming CPU and memory and causing slowdown or denial of service. This issue is fixed in versions 8.0.6 and 7.0.17.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.007 53rd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed suricata (OISF): 8.0.6, 7.0.17

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
OISFsuricata8.0.0 to before 8.0.6; 7.0.0 to before 7.0.178.0.6, 7.0.17Patch availableCNA
  • suricata VendorOISF Affected 8.0.0 to before 8.0.6; 7.0.0 to before 7.0.17 Fixed in 8.0.6, 7.0.17 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:oisf:suricata:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*7.0.0 to before 7.0.17; 8.0.0 to before 8.0.6VulnerableOISF
  • cpe:2.3:a:oisf:suricata:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 7.0.0 to before 7.0.17; 8.0.0 to before 8.0.6 Vulnerable ·OISF

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA suricata (OISF) Fixed in 8.0.6, 7.0.17

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

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Not affected: 1 product
  • Red Hat

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-57227

References

Patch 3

Advisory 1

Other 3

  • TI-2026-33506 ikev2: unbounded client transform storage can lead to resource exhaustion CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2026-33484 Suricata lua/tls: null dereference in TlsGetCertInfo CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2024-31811 Suricata ja4: invalid alpn leads to panic CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2020-13673 Directory Traversal vulnerability found in Pfsense v.2.1.3 and Pfsense Suricata v.1.4.6… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2023-17928 In Suricata before 6.0.13, an adversary who controls an external source of Lua rules may… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2026-63304 Use after free in OISF Suricata CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.4
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Sources

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