Suricata defrag: off by one can lead to policy bypass
Priority LOW 30CWE-193Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Prior to version 7.0.7, a logic error during fragment reassembly can lead to failed reassembly for valid traffic. An attacker could craft packets to trigger this behavior.This issue has been addressed in 7.0.7.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00465 40th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed suricata (OISF): 7.0.7
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA suricata (OISF) Fixed in 7.0.7
Vendor assessments
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-45796
References
More OISF Suricata vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-33506 ikev2: unbounded client transform storage can lead to resource exhaustion CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2026-33484 Suricata lua/tls: null dereference in TlsGetCertInfo CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2024-31811 Suricata ja4: invalid alpn leads to panic CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2020-13673 Directory Traversal vulnerability found in Pfsense v.2.1.3 and Pfsense Suricata v.1.4.6… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2023-17928 In Suricata before 6.0.13, an adversary who controls an external source of Lua rules may… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-63304 Use after free in OISF Suricata CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.4
Sources
- CVE-2024-45796 · CVE Program
- CVE-2024-45796 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- CVE-2024-45796 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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