CVE-2024-28870 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Oisf	Suricata

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:oisf:suricata::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:oisf:suricata::::::::

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References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-mhhx-xw7r-r5c8

History

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 17:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Oisf Oisf suricata
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:oisf:suricata::::::::
Vendors & Products		Oisf Oisf suricata

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2024-04-03T21:13:48.470Z

Updated: 2024-08-02T00:56:58.358Z

Reserved: 2024-03-11T22:45:07.688Z

Link: CVE-2024-28870

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T00:56:58.358Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-04-03T22:15:07.037

Modified: 2025-04-28T16:43:27.213

Link: CVE-2024-28870

Redhat

No data.

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