CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-29917

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-04-10 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-04-10
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.2 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-770

Description

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. The bytes setting in the decode_base64 keyword is not properly limited. Due to this, signatures using the keyword and setting can cause large memory allocations of up to 4 GiB per thread. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.0.9.

Affected configurations

• oisf suricata (< 7.0.9)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness

References