CVE-2026-63446

High

Description

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.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.5
Exploit probability—
ProductOisf Suricata
PublishedSep 18, 2026
First seenSep 18, 2026

How to fix

Update
  • oisf suricata8.0.6 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
oisf suricata8.0.0 ≤ v < 8.0.68.0.6

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