CVE-2026-45770

high

Description

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Starting in version 8.0.0 and prior to version 8.0.5, a Lua rule that registers too many flow variables can corrupt Lua detection state and may bypass Suricata's restricted Lua sandbox. This requires an affected Lua script/rule to be loaded. Excessive flow variables being registered may also cause Suricata to crash. Version 8.0.5 contains a fix. As a workaround, disable `security.lua.allow-rules` unless Lua rules are required.

References

https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/8556

https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-653j-cc95-vj4c

https://forum.suricata.io/t/suricata-8-0-5-and-7-0-16-released/6315

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-10

Updated: 2026-09-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00049