CVE-2026-31933
Description
A flaw was found in Suricata, a network Intrusion Detection System (IDS), Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), and Network Security Monitoring (NSM) engine. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending specially crafted network traffic. This can cause Suricata to slow down significantly, leading to a denial of service (DoS) in IDS mode, which impacts the system's ability to detect and prevent threats.
Statement
This is an Important denial of service vulnerability in Suricata, a network Intrusion Detection System (IDS). Specially crafted network traffic can cause Suricata to experience significant performance degradation when operating in IDS mode. This can impair the system's ability to effectively detect and prevent threats in Red Hat environments where Suricata is deployed.
Mitigation
Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.
Understanding the Weakness (CWE)
Availability
Technical Impact: DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU); DoS: Resource Consumption (Memory); DoS: Resource Consumption (Other)
When allocating resources without limits, an attacker could prevent other systems, applications, or processes from accessing the same type of resource. It can be easy for an attacker to consume many resources by rapidly making many requests or causing larger resources to be used than is needed.
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