Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Sep 18, 2026· Updated Sep 28, 2026
CVE-2026-57229
CVE-2026-57229
Description
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. From 8.0.0 until 8.0.6, the SMTP MIME parser in rust/src/mime/smtp.rs does not fully reset state when processing Content-Type: message/rfc822 encapsulation. An outer MIME part's encoding or filename state can leak into the inner message, allowing crafted mail to evade detections based on file.data, file.name, or extracted URLs when SMTP MIME decoding is enabled. This issue is fixed in version 8.0.6.
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References
5- github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/4985eb9daea2f765b6ef59a58fa02e5c71c0a77cnvdPatch
- github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/c0215c7e175b0000ef8450928dd1f3453c48379bnvdPatch
- github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-ph5p-pm8r-m355nvdVendor Advisory
- github.com/OISF/suricata/releases/tag/suricata-8.0.6nvdRelease Notes
- redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/8649nvdPermissions Required
News mentions
1- Suricata: 19 Vulnerabilities Disclosed Together, Critical Flaws in HTTP/2 and DoH2 ParsersVypr Intelligence · Sep 20, 2026