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CVE-2026-22259

Suricata dnp3: unbounded transaction growth

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 7.0.14, 8.0.3
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Suricata is a network IDS, IPS and NSM engine. Prior to versions 8.0.3 and 7.0.14, specially crafted traffic can cause Suricata to consume large amounts of memory while parsing DNP3 traffic. This can lead to the process slowing down and running out of memory, potentially leading to it getting killed by the OOM killer. Versions 8.0.3 or 7.0.14 contain a patch. As a workaround, disable the DNP3 parser in the suricata yaml (disabled by default).

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • OISF suricata

    fixed in 7.0.14; From 8.0.0 · fixed in 8.0.3

References 4

GitHub · OISF/suricata

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