Stack-based buffer overflow in Suricata - CVE-2025-64331

 

Stack-based buffer overflow in Suricata - CVE-2025-64331

Published: November 27, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU118809
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.2 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-64331
CWE-ID: CWE-121
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error on large HTTP file transfers. A remote attacker can trigger a stack-based buffer overflow and perform a denial of service attack.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires that the HTTP response body limit has been increased and that logging of printable HTTP bodies was enabled.


Affected software

Suricata

How to mitigate CVE-2025-64331

Install updates from vendor's website.

Suricata - addressed in versions 7.0.13, 8.0.2

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