CVE-2024-28870

moderate-risk
Published 2024-04-03

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.

Do I need to act?

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0.46% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 7.5/10 High
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Affected Vendors

Oisf

References (2)

Vendor Advisory https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-mhhx-xw7r-r5c8
Vendor Advisory https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-mhhx-xw7r-r5c8
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/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity 26/34 · High
Exploitability 2/34 · Minimal
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal