CVE-2021-45098

Summary

CVECVE-2021-45098
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-12-16 05:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-01-04 16:48:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in Suricata before 6.0.4. It is possible to bypass/evade any HTTP-based signature by faking an RST TCP packet with random TCP options of the md5header from the client side. After the three-way handshake, it's possible to inject an RST ACK with a random TCP md5header option. Then, the client can send an HTTP GET request with a forbidden URL. The server will ignore the RST ACK and send the response HTTP packet for the client's request. These packets will not trigger a Suricata reject action.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 11.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Oisf Suricata All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Releases · OISF/suricata · GitHub MISC github.com
Suricata 6.0.4 and 5.0.8 released - Announcements - Suricata MISC forum.suricata.io
stream/tcp: handle RST with MD5 or AO header · OISF/suricata@50e2b97 · GitHub MISC github.com
Security #4710: tcp: Bypass of Payload Detection on TCP RST with options of MD5header - Suricata - Open Information Security Foundation MISC redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 182402 Debian Security Update for suricata (CVE-2021-45098)
  • 502188 Alpine Linux Security Update for suricata
  • 505423 Alpine Linux Security Update for suricata
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