CVE-2026-22264

critical

Description

Suricata is a network IDS, IPS and NSM engine. Prior to version 8.0.3 and 7.0.14, an unsigned integer overflow can lead to a heap use-after-free condition when generating excessive amounts of alerts for a single packet. Versions 8.0.3 and 7.0.14 contain a patch. As a workaround, do not run untrusted rulesets or run with less than 65536 signatures that can match on the same packet.

References

https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/8190

https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-mqr8-m3m4-2hw5

https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/ac1eb394181530430fb7262969f423a1bf8f209b

https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/5789a3d3760dbf33d93fc56c27bd9529e5bdc8f2

https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/549d7bf60616de8e54686a188196453b5b22f715

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-01-27

Updated: 2026-01-29

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.1

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

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00044