{"id":"CVE-2026-63446","aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2026-63446","EUVD-2026-83395","GHSA-gjwr-75gq-877m","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-63446"],"status":"published","title":"Suricata app-layer: passed flows can retain transactions, causing resource exhaustion","description":"Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. From 8.0.0 until 8.0.6, AppLayerParserSetTransactionInspectId() in src/app-layer-parser.c uses an inverted guard and marks only already-inspected transactions as inspected. On flows passed by a pass rule or pass-the-flow exception policy, detection is skipped, so completed transactions remain unmarked, are never freed, and are repeatedly rescanned. The per-flow list can grow without bound with quadratic cleanup cost, causing CPU and memory exhaustion. This issue is fixed in version 8.0.6.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-09","score":0.00684,"percentile":0.52843,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":true},"cwes":["CWE-401","CWE-407"],"published":"2026-09-18T20:22:15Z","modified":"2026-10-28T11:17:07Z","fixes":[{"ecosystem":"Debian:14","package":"suricata","fixed_in":["1:8.0.6-1"],"sources":["osv"]}],"affected":[{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Debian:13","package":"suricata","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["1:7.0.10-1","1:7.0.10-1+deb13u1","1:7.0.10-1+deb13u2","1:7.0.10-1+deb13u3","1:7.0.10-1+deb13u4","1:7.0.11-1","1:7.0.11-1~bpo13+1","1:8.0.0-1~exp1","1:8.0.0-1~exp2","1:8.0.0-1~exp4","1:8.0.0-1~exp5","1:8.0.1-1","1:8.0.1-2","1:8.0.1-3","1:8.0.1-3~bpo13+1","1:8.0.2-1","1:8.0.2-1~bpo13+1","1:8.0.3-1","1:8.0.3-1~bpo13+1","1:8.0.3-2~exp1","1:8.0.4-1","1:8.0.4-1~bpo13+1","1:8.0.5-1","1:8.0.5-1~bpo13+1","1:8.0.6-1","1:8.0.6-1~bpo13+1","1:8.0.7-1","1:8.0.7-1~bpo13+1","1:8.0.7-2~exp1"]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Debian:14","package":"suricata","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:8.0.6-1"}]}],"versions":["1:7.0.10-1","1:7.0.11-1","1:7.0.11-1~bpo13+1","1:8.0.0-1~exp1","1:8.0.0-1~exp2","1:8.0.0-1~exp4","1:8.0.0-1~exp5","1:8.0.1-1","1:8.0.1-2","1:8.0.1-3","1:8.0.1-3~bpo13+1","1:8.0.2-1","1:8.0.2-1~bpo13+1","1:8.0.3-1","1:8.0.3-1~bpo13+1","1:8.0.3-2~exp1","1:8.0.4-1","1:8.0.4-1~bpo13+1","1:8.0.5-1","1:8.0.5-1~bpo13+1","1:8.0.6-1~bpo13+1"]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","package":"suricata","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["2.0.8-1build1","2.0.9-1","2.0.10-1","2.0.10-2","2.0.11-1","3.0-1"]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:18.04:LTS","package":"suricata","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["3.2-2ubuntu3"]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:22.04:LTS","package":"suricata","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["1:6.0.4-2","1:6.0.4-3"]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:24.04:LTS","package":"suricata","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["1:7.0.0-2","1:7.0.2-1","1:7.0.2-1build1","1:7.0.3-1build1","1:7.0.3-1build3"]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:26.04:LTS","package":"suricata","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["1:7.0.10-1","1:8.0.1-3build1","1:8.0.2-1","1:8.0.2-1build1","1:8.0.3-1"]}],"products":[{"vendor":"oisf","product":"suricata"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-gjwr-75gq-877m","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","Mitigation","Vendor Advisory","advisory","report"]},{"url":"https://github.com/OISF/suricata/pull/15726","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","Patch","fix","report"]},{"url":"https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/006e21c1ccc38c1c815e7945d54b4638cc5f0de8","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","Patch","fix","report"]},{"url":"https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/60a83c62a1dfdfb589b2bad27fb7fc339fc964b7","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","Patch","fix","report"]},{"url":"https://github.com/OISF/suricata/releases/tag/suricata-8.0.6","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","Release Notes","web","report"]},{"url":"https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/8628","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","Permissions Required","web","report"]},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/63xxx/CVE-2026-63446.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-63446","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-63446","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-63446","tags":["report"]},{"url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63446","tags":["report"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-63446","title":"Suricata app-layer: passed flows can retain transactions, causing resource exhaustion","description":"Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. 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The per-flow list can grow without bound with quadratic cleanup cost, causing CPU and memory exhaustion. This issue is fixed in version 8.0.6.","status":"published","published":"2026-09-18T20:22:15.562Z","modified":"2026-10-28T11:17:07.870082277Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-401","CWE-407"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:45:13.306117Z"},{"id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2026-63446","description":"Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. From 8.0.0 until 8.0.6, AppLayerParserSetTransactionInspectId() in src/app-layer-parser.c uses an inverted guard and marks only already-inspected transactions as inspected. On flows passed by a pass rule or pass-the-flow exception policy, detection is skipped, so completed transactions remain unmarked, are never freed, and are repeatedly rescanned. 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The per-flow list can grow without bound with quadratic cleanup cost, causing CPU and memory exhaustion. This issue is fixed in version 8.0.6.","status":"published","published":"2026-09-18T21:17:00Z","modified":"2026-09-23T23:31:27Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T16:56:43.630667Z"}]}}