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CVE-2026-45752: Suricata detect/transform: use-after-free in decompress transforms

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-09-10 · updated 2026-09-28
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Starting in version 8.0.0 and prior to version 8.0.5, when certain detection transforms are chained, the decompress transform pipeline could read from an inspection buffer after it had been reallocated and freed. The issue is reached during network traffic processing, but requires a malicious rule as Suricata will crash whatever the traffic. Version 8.0.5 contains a fix. As a workaround, avoid rules that chain `gunzip` or `zlib_deflate` with `max-size` bigger than 4096 after another transform.

Affected products

• OISF suricata: from 8.0.0 before 8.0.5 — fixed in 8.0.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: OISF suricata 8.0.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://forum.suricata.io/t/suricata-8-0-5-and-7-0-16-released/6315
• https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-qmc9-vqq2-8mv3
• https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/8536

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