CVE-2024-55605: oisf suricata Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2024-55605 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in oisf suricata. EPSS estimates a 0.68% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 51.7% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Related 1Timeline
- 06-01-2025PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 06-01-2025Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Prior to 7.0.8, a large input buffer to the to_lowercase, to_uppercase, strip_whitespace, compress_whitespace, dotprefix, header_lowercase, strip_pseudo_headers, url_decode, or xor transform can lead to a stack overflow causing Suricata to crash. The issue has been addressed in Suricata 7.0.8.
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
0.68%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
52%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
+0.03 pp
From 0.65% 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< 1:7.0.8-1
Oisf1 product
- suricata< 7.0.8
Ubuntu1 product
- suricataAll versions (No fix recorded)
3 vendors · 3 products
References
5 links- github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-x2hr-33vp-w289X Refsource CONFIRMREPORTVendor Advisory
