Medium severity5.9NVD Advisory· Published Sep 18, 2026· Updated Sep 28, 2026
CVE-2026-63448
CVE-2026-63448
Description
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Prior to 7.0.17 and 8.0.6, the SMB parser can retain force-completed transactions on flows where Suricata sees payload in only one direction, including async-oneside flows, because cleanup waits for inspection in the unseen direction. The transaction creation paths in rust/src/smb can exceed the intended SMB_MAX_TX bound, and cleanup repeatedly scans the growing list. Sustained one-directional SMB traffic can therefore cause unbounded per-flow state and CPU and memory exhaustion. This issue is fixed in versions 8.0.6 and 7.0.17.
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Affected products
2Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
10- github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/755d6c3061de4d7ba97f0ed31cdc17ab8cab4476nvdPatch
- github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/7ec9d72d28b9370712cf77a5b9d40d6b5db27cb4nvdPatch
- github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/88adab8bd3d62912941647ab65032d5ec75c893anvdPatch
- github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/9a54a043516e644bb7b9d34117a91977f950a281nvdPatch
- github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/bc39274a638d1cca2391cfa4891c8b6c255ff9cenvdPatch
- github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/c8f68b0e4f9e721dca1c9ed6e08597c6964c7ac3nvdPatch
- github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-hvvj-c8xx-9g35nvdMitigationVendor Advisory
- github.com/OISF/suricata/releases/tag/suricata-7.0.17nvdRelease Notes
- github.com/OISF/suricata/releases/tag/suricata-8.0.6nvdRelease Notes
- redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/8629nvdPermissions Required
News mentions
1- Suricata: 19 Vulnerabilities Disclosed Together, Critical Flaws in HTTP/2 and DoH2 ParsersVypr Intelligence · Sep 20, 2026