CVE-2025-29917

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.

CVSS v3 6.2 MEDIUM

6.2^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.5 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/32d0bd2bbb4d486623dec85a94952fde2515f2f0	Patch
https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-x8c9-8553-j9px	Vendor Advisory
https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/7613	Permissions Required

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:oisf:suricata:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2025-04-10 21:15

Updated : 2025-05-29 15:48

NVD link : CVE-2025-29917

Mitre link : CVE-2025-29917

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-29917

JSON object : View

Products Affected

oisf

suricata

CWE

CWE-770

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

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