CVSS 3.0
5.3 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NCVE-2018-6794
Medium (5.3). EPSS 24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Suricata before 4.0.4 is prone to an HTTP detection bypass vulnerability in detect.c and stream-tcp.c. If a malicious server breaks a normal TCP flow and sends data before the 3-way handshake is complete, then the data sent by the malicious server will be accepted by web clients such as a web browser or Linux CLI utilities, but ignored by Suricata IDS signatures. This mostly affects IDS signatures for the HTTP protocol and TCP stream content; signatures for TCP packets will inspect such network traffic as usual.
Severity
- EPSS
- 24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 97% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-693
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- suricata-ids:suricata
References
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/pull/3202/commits/e1ef57c848bbe4e567d5d4b66d346a742e3f77a1
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00000.html
- https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2427
- https://suricata-ids.org/2018/02/14/suricata-4-0-4-available/
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44247/