# CVE-2026-63447: Suricata ftp: crafted FTP traffic can cause quadratic CPU consumption

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 8.0.6
- Published: 2026-09-18 · Updated: 2026-09-21

## Affected

- OISF suricata: from 8.0.5, fixed in 8.0.6

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on OISF suricata, upgrade to a fixed version (8.0.6) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-w394-3g33-3jg9
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/15bf91c5ccbbbf640cd042e1c96974b262549385
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/82c41905589305e8389ceb793907ccb74798aee5
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/releases/tag/suricata-8.0.6
- https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/8592

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