Description
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. From 8.0.0 until 8.0.6, the HTTP/1 parser limits decompression work per transaction but does not limit how many small brotli compression bombs a single flow can submit. With response-body-decompress-layer-limit enabled, repeated compressed responses make the decompression paths in rust/htp perform expensive work for every transaction, degrading packet processing and potentially causing loss of monitoring visibility or denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 8.0.6.
Affected products
oisf: suricata
References5
- github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-j9cx-w9xm-5x84 MitigationVendor Advisory
- github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/392b6aee2971a4b5e573850f5d83211… Patch
- github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/e369bf29ee5bbd0cdf6a98dc4a3357b… Patch
- github.com/OISF/suricata/releases/tag/suricata-8.0.6 Release Notes
- redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/8694 Permissions Required
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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7.5
HIGH
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 1% percentile: 50 · as of 8 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-400CWE-409
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