Use After Free in Oisf Suricata

CVE-2026-45752

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.

Vulnerability class: Use-After-Free

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-45752?
CVE-2026-45752 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Oisf Suricata, classified under Use After Free. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2026-09-10.
How severe is CVE-2026-45752?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.