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CVE-2026-57227

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

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 8.0.6, 7.0.17
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • OISF suricata

    From 8.0.0 · fixed in 8.0.6; From 7.0.0 · fixed in 7.0.17

References 7

GitHub · OISF/suricata

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