CVE-2026-63446 (GCVE-0-2026-63446)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-18 20:22
Modified
2026-09-21 16:20
CWE
  • CWE-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
  • CWE-407 - Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
OISF suricata Version: >= 8.0.0, < 8.0.6
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