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CVE-2026-63452: Suricata http1: repeated brotli compression bombs can cause excessive CPU consumption

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-09-18 · updated 2026-09-28
• Weakness: CWE-400

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: from 8.0.0 before 8.0.6 — fixed in 8.0.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: OISF suricata 8.0.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/392b6aee2971a4b5e573850f5d832112509bcb5f
• https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/e369bf29ee5bbd0cdf6a98dc4a3357ba43c86a88
• https://github.com/OISF/suricata/releases/tag/suricata-8.0.6
• https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-j9cx-w9xm-5x84
• https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/8694

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