CVE-2026-45763 PUBLISHED

Suricata lua: sandbox allocation limit not enforced for new allocations

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 Lua rule execution is enabled, the Lua sandbox memory limit was not consistently enforced for new allocations. Certain Lua allocation patterns could exceed security.lua.max-bytes without triggering the intended memory limit, making the configured sandbox limit unreliable. This requires Lua rules to be enabled and an affected Lua script/rule to be loaded. Version 8.0.5 contains a fix. As a workaround, disable security.lua.allow-rules unless Lua rules are required.

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-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE