CVE-2026-63452

Suricata http1: repeated brotli compression bombs can cause excessive CPU consumption

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: September 18, 2026 at 08:16 PM UTC
Updated: September 28, 2026 at 06:40 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorSuricata

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.6%
SSVC
No known exploit

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 8.0.68.0.0 ≤ v < 8.0.6
Affected range stops below 8.0.6, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

References (5)

x_refsource_CONFIRMMitigationVendor Advisory
Source: cverecord
https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-j9cx-w9xm-5x84
x_refsource_MISCRelease Notes
Source: cverecord
https://github.com/OISF/suricata/releases/tag/suricata-8.0.6
x_refsource_MISCPermissions Required
Source: cverecord
https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/8694

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitAutomatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

7.5HIGHGitHub_M
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-400CWE-409

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