CVE-2025-29917

medium

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.

References

https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/7613

https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-x8c9-8553-j9px

https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/32d0bd2bbb4d486623dec85a94952fde2515f2f0

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-04-10

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium