CVE-2025-29917 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Suricata
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
CNA6.2
EPSS
0.1%
top 80.48%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedApr 10
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages3 packages
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
2📋Vendor Advisories
1Debian▶
CVE-2025-29917: suricata - Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System an...↗2025