What is CVE-2025-29917?

CVE-2025-29917 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Oisf Suricata, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.2/10. Published 2025-04-10.

How severe is CVE-2025-29917?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.2 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Oisf Suricata

CVE-2025-29917

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. The bytes setting in the decode_base64 keyword is not properly limited. Due to this, signatures using the keyword and set…

EPSS: 0.002 (12.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.2 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Oisf Suricata — versions < 7.0.9

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
security-advisories@github.com (Patch, x_refsource_MISC)
security-advisories@github.com (Permissions Required, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-29917?: CVE-2025-29917 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Oisf Suricata, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.2/10. Published 2025-04-10.
How severe is CVE-2025-29917?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.2 out of 10.