7.5
HIGH CVSS 3.1
CVE-2026-57227
Suricata mqtt: unbounded resource consumption from repeated pubrec and pubrel messages
Description

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. From 7.0.0 until 7.0.17 and 8.0.6, the MQTT parser in rust/src/mqtt/mqtt.rs permits repeated PUBREC or PUBREL messages to be appended to one transaction without a limit. Crafted MQTT traffic can grow transaction state indefinitely, consuming CPU and memory and causing slowdown or denial of service. This issue is fixed in versions 8.0.6 and 7.0.17.

INFO

Published Date :

Sept. 18, 2026, 9:17 p.m.

Last Modified :

Sept. 18, 2026, 9:17 p.m.

Remotely Exploit :

Yes !
Affected Products

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ID Vendor Product Action
1 Oisf suricata
CVSS Scores
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Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 3.1 HIGH [email protected]
Solution
Update Suricata to patch the MQTT parser to prevent denial of service from crafted traffic.
  • Update Suricata to version 8.0.6 or later.
  • Apply the patch for the MQTT parser issue.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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  • New CVE Received by [email protected]

    Sep. 18, 2026

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. From 7.0.0 until 7.0.17 and 8.0.6, the MQTT parser in rust/src/mqtt/mqtt.rs permits repeated PUBREC or PUBREL messages to be appended to one transaction without a limit. Crafted MQTT traffic can grow transaction state indefinitely, consuming CPU and memory and causing slowdown or denial of service. This issue is fixed in versions 8.0.6 and 7.0.17.
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Added CWE CWE-400
    Added CWE CWE-770
    Added Affected New affected value received. <a href="https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/blob/main/cves/2026/57xxx/CVE-2026-57227.json">CVE-2026-57227</a>
    Added Reference https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/03ba8a71d827dd36a0ceb512f45d2f440f260a3a
    Added Reference https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/5cde93dea38533c9b225128ba9d54955997dc273
    Added Reference https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/c03666d261256df5a2d1f5800872da8a5addf6a5
    Added Reference https://github.com/OISF/suricata/releases/tag/suricata-7.0.17
    Added Reference https://github.com/OISF/suricata/releases/tag/suricata-8.0.6
    Added Reference https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-7h2h-hpj2-9w6p
    Added Reference https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/8525
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