CVE-2025-29916 (GCVE-0-2025-29916)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-10 20:03 – Updated: 2025-04-10 20:21
VLAI
Title
Suricata datasets: ruleset declared settings can lead to resource starvation
Summary
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Datasets declared in rules have an option to specify the `hashsize` to use. This size setting isn't properly limited, so the hash table allocation can be large. Untrusted rules can lead to large memory allocations, potentially leading to denial of service due to resource starvation. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.0.9.
Severity
6.2 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-10 20:20 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7820 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
OISF suricata Affected: < 7.0.9
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