CVE-2025-29916CWE-770

Suricata datasets: ruleset declared settings can lead to resource starvation

Medium · published April 10, 2025

CVSS v3.1
6.2
EPSS
0%
Percentile
18.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.2 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00268 · 18.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2025-04-10T20:03Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 10 APR 20:03Z
    Suricata datasets: ruleset declared settings can lead to resource starvation
    cvelistv5