TI-2024-36914 Aliases CVE-2024-55605

Suricata allows stack overflow in transforms

MEDIUM 40CWE-400Published 2025-01-06 · Updated 2025-01-06

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · None · High
Fix status: Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-400.

Summary

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Prior to 7.0.8, a large input buffer to the to_lowercase, to_uppercase, strip_whitespace, compress_whitespace, dotprefix, header_lowercase, strip_pseudo_headers, url_decode, or xor transform can lead to a stack overflow causing Suricata to crash. The issue has been addressed in Suricata 7.0.8.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.0068 52nd percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Fixed suricata (OISF): 7.0.8

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

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
OISF	suricata	before 7.0.8	7.0.8	Patch available	CNA

suricata VendorOISF Affected before 7.0.8 Fixed in 7.0.8 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:oisf:suricata::::::::	before 7.0.8	Vulnerable	OISF

cpe:2.3:a:oisf:suricata:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 7.0.8 Vulnerable ·OISF

Remediation

Fix · CNA suricata (OISF) Fixed in 7.0.8

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

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Not affected: 1 product

Red Hat

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-55605
2026-10-13 EPSS moved to the 50th–90th percentile

References

Advisory 1

https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-x2hr-33vp-w289

Other 1

https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/7229

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

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Sources

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