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high 7.5

CVE-2026-63446 json

Suricata app-layer: passed flows can retain transactions, causing resource exhaustion

published 3mo ago modified last mo. also EUVD-2026-83395 , GHSA-gjwr-75gq-877m

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
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 53%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. From 8.0.0 until 8.0.6, AppLayerParserSetTransactionInspectId() in src/app-layer-parser.c uses an inverted guard and marks only already-inspected transactions as inspected. On flows passed by a pass rule or pass-the-flow exception policy, detection is skipped, so completed transactions remain unmarked, are never freed, and are repeatedly rescanned. The per-flow list can grow without bound with quadratic cleanup cost, causing CPU and memory exhaustion. This issue is fixed in version 8.0.6.

Patch / fix

  • oisf suricata 8.0.6
  • openinfosecfoundation suricata 8.0.6
  • suricata-ids suricata 8.0.6
  • suricata Debian 14 1:8.0.6-1

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red hat product security vex CVE-2026-63446 updated cvss 7.5

suricata: Suricata: Denial of Service via resource exhaustion in app-layer transaction handling

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not 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

0.68% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 53% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • OISF suricata

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
  • CWE-407 Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity

References

Sources

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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.