ubuntu-cve-2018-6794
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2018-02-07 05:29
Modified
2025-10-24 04:46
Summary
Details

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
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
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          {
            "binary_name": "suricata",
            "binary_version": "3.0-1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS",
        "name": "suricata",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/suricata@3.0-1?arch=source\u0026distro=xenial"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
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            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "2.0.8-1build1",
        "2.0.9-1",
        "2.0.10-1",
        "2.0.10-2",
        "2.0.11-1",
        "3.0-1"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "libhtp-0.5.23-1",
            "binary_version": "3.2-2ubuntu3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "suricata",
            "binary_version": "3.2-2ubuntu3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "suricata-hyperscan",
            "binary_version": "3.2-2ubuntu3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "suricata-oinkmaster",
            "binary_version": "3.2-2ubuntu3"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:18.04:LTS",
        "name": "suricata",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/suricata@3.2-2ubuntu3?arch=source\u0026distro=bionic"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
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            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6794",
  "modified": "2025-10-24T04:46:55Z",
  "published": "2018-02-07T05:29:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-6794"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2427"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/OISF/suricata/pull/3202/commits/e1ef57c848bbe4e567d5d4b66d346a742e3f77a1"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6794"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2018-6794"
  ]
}



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