CVE-2026-45770 PUBLISHED

Suricata lua: excessive flow variable registration can bypass sandbox

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, 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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS Score: 7.5

Product Status

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

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-693: Protection Mechanism Failure CWE
  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write CWE