CVE-2026-63447 PUBLISHED

Suricata ftp: crafted FTP traffic can cause quadratic CPU consumption

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 16.07.2026 Published: 18.09.2026 Updated: 18.09.2026

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. From 8.0.5 until 8.0.6, the FTP parser in src/app-layer-ftp.c can continue allocating transactions after app-layer.protocols.ftp.max-tx is reached while processing one large chunk of FTP command data. The oversized transaction list is repeatedly processed with quadratic complexity after the too_many_transactions event, allowing crafted FTP traffic to degrade packet processing, reduce monitoring visibility, or cause denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 8.0.6.

Metrics

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

Product Status

Vendor OISF
Product suricata
Versions
  • Version >= 8.0.5, < 8.0.6 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-407: Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity CWE