Suricata is vulnerable to a stack overflow from unbounded stack allocation in LuaPushStringBuffer
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-121 and the CVSS impact.
Summary
Suricata is a network IDS, IPS and NSM engine developed by the OISF (Open Information Security Foundation) and the Suricata community. Prior to versions 7.0.13 and 8.0.2, working with large buffers in Lua scripts can lead to a stack overflow. Users of Lua rules and output scripts may be affected when working with large buffers. This includes a rule passing a large buffer to a Lua script. This issue has been patched in versions 7.0.13 and 8.0.2. A workaround for this issue involves disabling Lua rules and output scripts, or making sure limits, such as stream.depth.reassembly and HTTP response body limits (response-body-limit), are set to less than half the stack size.
Why it matters now
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 7.0.13, 8.0.2
Vendor assessments
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-64344
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-2025-64344 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-64344 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- CVE-2025-64344 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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