Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity Affecting suricata package, versions >=8.0.0 <8.0.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUST-SURICATA-15909734
  • published5 Apr 2026
  • disclosed2 Apr 2026
  • creditOSS Fuzz

Introduced: 2 Apr 2026

NewCVE-2026-31934  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-407  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade suricata to version 8.0.4 or higher.

Overview

suricata is a network IDS, IPS and NSM engine developed by the OISF and the Suricata community.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity in the smtp/mime process. An attacker can cause significant performance degradation by sending specially crafted MIME-encoded messages containing numerous URLs.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1