CVE-2025-29917

Published: Apr 10, 2025Modified: May 29, 2025

5.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 3.6

Source: NVD

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.

Affected (1)

Products: Oisf: Suricata

1 product

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Oisf Suricata	Before 7.0.9

Related CWEs

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor.

References (3)

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

Source: security-advisories@github.com

Patch

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

Source: security-advisories@github.com

Vendor Advisory

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

Source: security-advisories@github.com

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