CVE-2026-45752 PUBLISHED

Suricata detect/transform: use-after-free in decompress transforms

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 13.05.2026 Published: 10.09.2026 Updated: 10.09.2026

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, when certain detection transforms are chained, the decompress transform pipeline could read from an inspection buffer after it had been reallocated and freed. The issue is reached during network traffic processing, but requires a malicious rule as Suricata will crash whatever the traffic. Version 8.0.5 contains a fix. As a workaround, avoid rules that chain gunzip or zlib_deflate with max-size bigger than 4096 after another transform.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 5.9

Product Status

Vendor OISF
Product suricata
Versions
  • Version >= 8.0.0, < 8.0.5 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-416: Use After Free CWE