CVE-2025-29918

Suricata pcre: negated pcr can cause infinite loop

State
Published
Severity
6.2 Medium
Published
Apr 10, 2025
Updated
Nov 3, 2025
Reserved
Mar 12, 2025

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Description

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. A PCRE rule can be written that leads to an infinite loop when negated PCRE is used. Packet processing thread becomes stuck in infinite loop limiting visibility and availability in inline mode. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.0.9.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.2 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
suricataOISF
  • < 7.0.9Affected

References

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