Bug 2538015 (CVE-2026-94083)

Summary: CVE-2026-94083 suricata: suricata: type confusion and invalid free in DoH2 protocol handling
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A flaw was found in Suricata's DNS over HTTPS 2 (DoH2) application-layer protocol parser. When processing a DoH2 request accompanied by an HTTP/1 to HTTP/2 upgrade, Suricata mistakenly executes HTTP/2 state cleanup logic while the protocol handler is in an HTTP/1 state. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this type confusion by sending crafted protocol upgrade traffic to trigger an invalid memory free. This can result in a daemon crash leading to Denial of Service (DoS) or potentially arbitrary code execution within the privileges of the Suricata process. This issue affects Suricata versions prior to 8.0.7 when `app-layer.protocols.doh2` is enabled.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-22 16:36:00 UTC
Suricata before 8.0.7 has a DoH2 type confusion that can cause an invalid free, because cleanup code for the HTTP2 state is executed even though the actual state is HTTP1 (when there is a DoH2 request with an HTTP1 to HTTP2 upgrade). This requires app-layer.protocols.doh2 to be enabled, which is the default in 8.x versions.