CVE-2026-57228 json
Suricata smtp/mime: heap out-of-bounds read quoted-printable decoder
published 3mo ago modified last mo. also EUVD-2026-83383 , GHSA-qxm4-q7vx-7xj4
Unreviewed: the maintainers' own advisory
Published by the maintainers on their GitHub repository OISF/suricata. GitHub has not reviewed it into the GitHub Advisory Database, so the affected packages and versions are the maintainers' word. Read the full advisory on GitHub.
- cvss
- 8.2
- version 3.1, CNA
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.4%
- EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 37%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. From 7.0.13 until 7.0.17, the SMTP MIME quoted-printable decoder in src/util-decode-mime.c can read one byte past a heap buffer when a quoted-printable escape sequence is split across traffic chunks and the following chunk contains exactly one byte. Crafted SMTP traffic can trigger the out-of-bounds read and crash Suricata when decode-quoted-printable MIME decoding is enabled. This issue is fixed in version 7.0.17.
Patch / fix
- oisf suricata 7.0.17
- openinfosecfoundation suricata 7.0.17
- suricata-ids suricata 7.0.17
- suricata Debian 14 1:8.0.1-1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-57228
- suricata openSUSE Tumbleweed 8.0.6-1.1
opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:11308-1
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red hat product security vex CVE-2026-57228 updated cvss 8.2
suricata: Suricata: Denial of Service via heap out-of-bounds read in SMTP MIME decoder
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Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat productsnot affected: vulnerable code not present
Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf
CISA SSVC
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- yes
- Technical impact
- partial
- Assessed
- last mo.
Exploit prediction
0.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 37% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).
Exploits and checks
- redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/8608 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNA | 3.1 | 8.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H |
| NVD | 3.1 | 9.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H |
Affected products
- OISF suricata
Classification
- Weakness
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- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
References
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github.com
/OISF/suricata/commit/19880f9d5bbe2b8f8e8867a577848dce2b532c86
patch
-
redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org
/issues/8608
exploit, vendor-advisory
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github.com
/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-qxm4-q7vx-7xj4
mitigation, vendor-advisory, advisory
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github.com
/OISF/suricata/releases/tag/suricata-7.0.17
release-notes
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2026-57228
- NVD CVE-2026-57228
- Maintainer advisory GHSA-qxm4-q7vx-7xj4
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The maintainers of OISF/suricata published their own advisory on GitHub. Reviewed sources take precedence over it.
CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.