CVE-2026-57222

medium

Description

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Prior to 7.0.17 and 8.0.6, crafted IPv4 and IPv6 address pairs can collide in the IPPair hash because src/ippair.c did not compare the IP address family before reusing IPPair-backed state. This can apply state from one IP family to another for xbits track ip_pair, FTP data expectations, and, on the 7.0 release line, thresholding, detection_filter, and rate_filter rules using track by_both, causing incorrect detection state. This issue is fixed in versions 8.0.6 and 7.0.17.

References

https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/8559

https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-2r8x-23fw-hgcg

https://github.com/OISF/suricata/releases/tag/suricata-8.0.6

https://github.com/OISF/suricata/releases/tag/suricata-7.0.17

https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/c92e270c4a795c52bce610aa1ce9ebaf065c49e6

https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/9d788575c5d22a34eeed50d56557ed12b05e0aec

https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/4a728464e6eb9e273bb02e3df0c28929b28db71d

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-18

Updated: 2026-09-23

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00442