Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-38536

HighPublic PoC

Published: 11 July 2024

Published
11 July 2024
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0059 69.7th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-38536 is a high-severity NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476) vulnerability in Oisf Suricata. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 30.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. A memory allocation failure due to `http.memcap` being reached leads to a NULL-ptr reference leading to a crash. Upgrade to 7.0.6.

CWE(s)
CWE-476

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

oisf
suricata
≤ 7.0.6

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References