CVE-2026-57228 PUBLISHED

Suricata smtp/mime: heap out-of-bounds read quoted-printable decoder

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 24.06.2026 Published: 18.09.2026 Updated: 18.09.2026

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. From 7.0.13 until 7.0.17, the SMTP MIME quoted-printable decoder in src/util-decode-mime.c can read one byte past a heap buffer when a quoted-printable escape sequence is split across traffic chunks and the following chunk contains exactly one byte. Crafted SMTP traffic can trigger the out-of-bounds read and crash Suricata when decode-quoted-printable MIME decoding is enabled. This issue is fixed in version 7.0.17.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 8.2

Product Status

Vendor OISF
Product suricata
Versions
  • Version >= 7.0.13, < 7.0.17 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read CWE