CVE-2026-63447
Suricata ftp: crafted FTP traffic can cause quadratic CPU consumption
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.5 High
- Published
- Sep 18, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 21, 2026
- Reserved
- Jul 16, 2026
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.5 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-407 Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
suricataOISF |
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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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