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modbus: txs without responses are never freed

High
victorjulien published GHSA-59qg-h357-69fq Jul 11, 2024

Package

suricata

Affected versions

<=7.0.5

Patched versions

7.0.6

Description

Impact

Crafted modbus traffic can lead to unlimited resource accumulation within a flow.

Patches

Upgrade to 7.0.6.

Workarounds

Disable the modbus parser if it is enabled. It is disabled by default.
Set a limited stream.reassembly.depth to reduce the issue.

References

https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/6987 (master)
https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/6988 (7.0.x)
These tickets are private until about 2 weeks after release.

Credits

Found by OSS-Fuzz

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE ID

CVE-2024-38534

Weaknesses

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor. Learn more on MITRE.