CVE-2024-28870: oisf suricata
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2024-28870 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in oisf suricata. EPSS estimates a 0.59% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 47.2% of scored vulnerabilities.
Timeline
- 03-04-2024PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 02-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
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.
CVSS metrics
4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVDNIST7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.59%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
47%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 0.59% on 21-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Debian1 product
- suricata< 1:7.0.4-1
Oisf1 product
- suricata≤ 6.0.16 | ≥ 7.0.0, ≤ 7.0.3 | < 6.0.17 | ≥ 7.0.0, < 7.0.4
Ubuntu1 product
- suricataAll versions (No fix recorded)
3 vendors · 3 products
References
6 links- github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-mhhx-xw7r-r5c8X Refsource CONFIRMREPORTVendor Advisory
