Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity Affecting suricata package, versions [,7.0.15)[8.0.0,8.0.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SURICATA-15909740
  • published5 Apr 2026
  • disclosed2 Apr 2026
  • creditOSS Fuzz

Introduced: 2 Apr 2026

NewCVE-2026-31933  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-407  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade suricata to version 7.0.15, 8.0.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity in the stream process. An attacker can degrade system performance by sending specially crafted network traffic.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1