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High · 7.5 CVE-2025-53538 EUVD-2025-22378

Suricata's mishandling of data on HTTP2 stream 0 can lead to resource starvation

Published Jul 22, 2025 · Updated Jul 23, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Suricata is a network IDS, IPS and NSM engine developed by the OISF (Open Information Security Foundation) and the Suricata community. In versions 7.0.10 and below and 8.0.0-beta1 through 8.0.0-rc1, mishandling of data on HTTP2 stream 0 can lead to uncontrolled memory usage, leading to loss of visibility. Workarounds include disabling the HTTP/2 parser, and using a signature like drop http2 any any -> any any (frame:http2.hdr; byte_test:1,=,0,3; byte_test:4,=,0,5; sid: 1;) where the first byte test tests the HTTP2 frame type DATA and the second tests the stream id 0. This is fixed in versions 7.0.11 and 8.0.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
OISF suricata < 7.0.11, >= 8.0.0-beta1, < 8.0.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 suricata 1:7.0.11-1 —
Debian 13 suricata 1:7.0.10-1+deb13u1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 suricata No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS suricata No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 suricata No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS suricata No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS suricata No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS suricata No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS suricata No fix yet —

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